Attendance · Education

School attendance that does not cost you the first ten minutes of the day

A school attendance system has two jobs that rarely sit in one place: knowing which staff are on campus, and knowing who came through the gate. PGAK handles both from the cameras already installed on your campus — staff attendance is logged automatically at the entrance, and the same estate watches gates and boundaries during school hours.

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Sound familiar?

Teaching staff attendance is a register in the principal's office, filled in from memory.
Substitute and visiting faculty are never on the biometric system at all.
The gate has a camera and a guard, and no record connecting them.
Parents ask who was on campus during an incident and nobody can answer precisely.
Any biometric touching students raises consent questions nobody wants to get wrong.

Start with staff, be careful with students

This is the most important design decision in education, and we lead with it: PGAK's attendance is built for staff. Applying facial recognition to minors carries consent, retention and safeguarding obligations that most schools should not take on lightly, and we will tell you that before selling you anything.

Staff attendance is the clear win

Teaching and non-teaching staff, permanent and substitute, logged automatically at the campus entrance with a photo-backed record.

Students: presence, not identification

Where schools need campus-level safety, boundary and gate alerts answer whether someone left the campus without identifying individual children.

Consent obligations are real

Under the DPDP Act, processing children's data carries stricter requirements including verifiable parental consent. Any vendor who waves this away is a risk to you, not a shortcut.

What the same cameras do beyond attendance

Campuses already run cameras for safety. Adding intelligence to that estate is what turns them from a recording archive into something that tells a human, during the school day, when something needs attention.

Gate and boundary alerts

Movement over a boundary wall out of hours, or at the gate during class time, raises an alert with a snapshot.

Substitute faculty enrolled in a minute

A guided face scan from a phone, so a visiting teacher is on the record the same morning.

Camera health monitoring

Detecting when a campus camera goes dark, rather than discovering it when footage is needed, can be configured and tested at your site.

Deployment on a campus, honestly

Campus entrances are usually good recognition environments; corridors and playgrounds usually are not, and we do not pretend otherwise. The feasibility check identifies which cameras support staff recognition and which are only useful for boundary and gate alerting — and we will recommend against any student-facing biometric deployment that your consent framework cannot properly support.

What to check before deployment

Camera and recorder streams: Confirm RTSP access or ONVIF discovery, stream stability and the views that matter. Do not send camera passwords in the enquiry form.
On-site processing: Ask which processing device is needed, how it is sized, what runs locally and what information leaves the site.
Attendance acceptance: Test real entrance conditions and enrolled staff with consent. Agree how missed or disputed records will be corrected before payroll use.
Complete commercial quote: Confirm enabled cameras, sites, subscription, setup, hardware, taxes and support. Use the assessed scope to compare proposals.

Get a site-specific AI video analytics price or use the attendance system buying checklist.

attendance system for school — common questions

Can schools use face recognition for student attendance in India?

Technically yes, but it should be approached with real caution. The DPDP Act imposes stricter obligations for processing children's data, including verifiable parental consent and limits on retention. PGAK's attendance is designed for staff; for students we recommend campus safety features such as gate and boundary alerts, which do not identify individual children.

How does staff attendance work on a school campus?

Teaching and non-teaching staff are enrolled once with a short face scan. The camera at the staff entrance logs each person as they arrive, with a timestamp and the frame it came from, and the record flows into monthly attendance and payroll.

Can substitute or visiting faculty be added quickly?

Yes — enrolment takes about a minute from a phone, so a substitute arriving in the morning is on the record before first period.

What campus safety features run on the same cameras?

Boundary crossing alerts, out-of-hours gate movement, and camera-offline warnings. These operate on presence and movement rather than identifying individual students.

Do we need new cameras for a school deployment?

Usually only at the staff entrance if there is not one already. Existing gate and perimeter cameras generally work as-is for boundary alerting, which is the bulk of campus safety value.

Start with a free audit of your own cameras.

Your number and camera count is all it takes. We call within one working hour and send the report within 48 hours.

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Who you are dealing with

A registered Ludhiana company that builds the software it sells.

PGAK Innovations Pvt. Ltd. is incorporated in Punjab, engineers its own AI layer, and runs the free camera audit itself — the people who answer the phone are the people who built the product. About the company →

Founded: 2023, Ludhiana
Registered office: BK Towers, 2480/2, Gill Rd, Ludhiana 141003
CIN: U62013PB2023PTC058631
Leadership: Puneet Garg · Ankur Kaplesh · Aditya Mittal; Why PGAK was built →
Talk to us: +91 62839 93600 WhatsAppOpen Mon–Sat 09:00-19:00

What a project here involves

Compatible cameras and recorders you already own are reused wherever they are suitable. Detection runs on an on-site processing unit, and camera suitability, stream access, processing hardware and network are all confirmed at the assessment — with anything extra itemised in the quote before you commit.

What the quote is made of

Component	What decides it	Price
Cameras reused	Which existing cameras give a usable view for each use case — confirmed on a still image of each view.	Quoted per site
Cameras moved or added	Only where a use case needs a view no camera has (plates and faces usually do). Each one named in the quote.	Quoted per site
On-site processing unit	Detection runs here, next to the recorder. Model, quantity and warranty depend on camera count and analytics.	Quoted per site
Software / licences	Which analytics on which cameras, the term, and the basis for renewal.	Quoted per site
Installation and configuration	Stream setup, zones, schedules, alert routing and commissioning.	Quoted per site
Pilot	Agreed scenes, acceptance criteria and duration before rollout.	Quoted per site
Support	Hours, response versus fix time, and who replaces failed hardware.	Quoted per site
Taxes	Stated separately on the quote.	Quoted per site

How it is evaluated

1. Self-check — Two minutes, nothing sent — find likely blockers.
2. Scope on paper — Cameras, use cases and acceptance tests, written down.
3. Site assessment — PGAK checks streams, views and network on your cameras.
4. Pilot against criteria — Precision, recall, false alerts and delay, agreed in advance.
5. Written proposal — Itemised as above; you decide whether to roll out.

Evidence for this page

No PGAK recording is published for this page yet. The capability register shows what has been demonstrated and under what conditions.

Discuss your camera setup

Share your phone number, city and camera count. We will clarify the intended use case and agree assessment scope and timing with you. Do not submit camera credentials or footage.