FINGERPRINT-BASED ATTENDANCE REGISTER.

hi everyone,
i recently got employed by a research institute. The mandate of my department is to develop project that have industrial application, remote sensing and process control undertone.
Although am an elect/elect graduate,i am new to the world of microcontrollers.
For me to keep the job i must come up wt a project.
So i have this fingerprint based attendance register idea,where employed will come to work,place their fingers on a fingerprint module,the system takes d info,keeps it in a memory,maps it wt d name of the employee and produce the list of employees that re present for work each day. And it should be capable of keeping a month record.
Thank you as i await you response.


Kind regads
Phillcent.

sorry guys. So my request is 'where do i start from?' your help will be greatly appreciated.

The problem is that a finger print based attendance system is not a new idea.
You can already buy it off the shelf.

thanks for ur quick reply. Can u then help me wt any project idea dat ve industrial application,remote sensing or process control undertone.it doesnt matter whether it has been done by sm1,let it just be a masterpiece.

@ phillcent
some ideas
http://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/FinalProjects/