CHAPTER 1INTRODUCTION 1.

1 OVERIVIEW Our project Exam Paper Security System is a system which will replace the traditionalmanual exam paper printing and distribution. Manual paper printing and distribution hasmany loopholes and have more chances of leakage of exam question papers. So, our idea is tomake a fully automatic paper printing and distribution system which ensures the integrity of the examinations. 1.1.1 ORIGIN OF PROJECT In past few months, we have seen that many of the scams related to the l e a k a g e o f examination papers of exams like AIEEE, B. Ed. etc. took place. On study of these scams wecame with the observation that either exam papers were leaked from the printing press or breakage of envelope seal during distribution. These unwanted events made big questionmark on the security system and also became cause of big financial loss for the examination boards.In present scenario, most of the examinations are conducted offline at different cities acrossthe globe. The existing system of exam conduction is completely manual. From the beginningof the procedure, there is complete manual interface such as paper printing, paper collection,distribution and finally deliver to the exam center and it increases the chances of paper leak.One basic requirement of exam should be maintained. These should be right time of paper printing, collection, and distribution as per exam schedule.The aim of our project is to make a automatic system which can cover all the above aspectssuch as paper printing, paper collection and distribution on exam centre with right date andright time. This project aims at creating a man less printing and packaging system with timestamp based security system for examination paper, that contain some important general lifeelements like LAN system, conveyer belt, printing machine, safe box etc. 1 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM 1.2 CAPABILTIES Our project will provide the complete solution which can prevent the examination paper leakage. The centre authority will be allowed to give command. There is only single computer which will be controlled by exam cell in-charge. This computer is directly connected to the printing press room. In printing press room, the computer will give command to print thequestion papers. There is an infrared counter which count the number of copies printed fromthe printer. This will increase the efficiency of the system.The paper will be dropped and collected in a wooden box which is also called safe box. The box will be locked automatically. There are a known number of copies in the box. Now, this box will be passed to outside the room with the help of a conveyor belt. The boxwill be collected at window and respective boxes will be distrusted to centers respectively.Here we can observe that only person is operating the whole process. In this project,there is very few chances of paper leak. Even though, if it happens then only one person isresponsible and this will bring out the defaulter.There is no interference of Human being in the whole process and it increases theefficiency as well as decreases the chances of paper leak and the financial loss of governmentdue to re-examination will be reduced

CHAPTER 2REVIEW OF STAGE I 2.1 INTRODUCTION In project stage I, we have done literature survey and studied the feasibility of the project aswell as done a thorough market survey. The designing of algorithm and flowchart was carriedout in stage I. There was a case study done for different organization having manual paper printing system. We have gone through this type of exam paper printing and distributionmechanis m currently being used in India and problems associated with it. Also we have gonethrough the technical section of our project and synchronization between various modules.The aim of our project is to make an automatic system which can cover all the stuff such as paper printing, paper collection, and distribution on exam center with right date andtime. This project is aimed at creating a man less printing and packaging system with timestamp based security system for examination paper. There is no human intervention in thewhole process and it increases the efficiency as well as decreases the chances of paper leak and the financial loss of government due to the reexamination will be reduced.T h e p a p e r w i l l b e p r i n t e d o n l y w h e n a r e s p o n s i b l e a u t h o r i t y g i v e s c o m m a n d t o computer. There is a single authority that is responsible for the whole activity. A counter is placed to count the number of papers. There is a preset limit of papers for printing. When itreaches its limit, the printer stops to print papers and printed papers are dropped in box andlocked by a lock. Using a smart box which is made of a wooden and a electromagnetic lock attached with it, it can open by some responsible authority on right date and time which is already stored in real time control (RTC) chip. A password system is present there in order tom a k e g r e a t s e c u r i t y o f e x a m p a p e r s . T h e b o x c a n b e o p e n a t t h e d a y o f e x a m a n d i t t h e chances of exam paper leak.The project is practically feasible, components will be easily available and has greatapplications and benefits in the present scenario where government suffers from a huge financial loss due to re-conduction of examination EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM 2.2 LITERATURE SURVEY The literature survey covered almost aspect every aspect of paper printing and distributionsystem were thoroughly studies while preparing the literature survey of exam paper leak prevention system. This gives us better way to analyze the problem statement and try to findout a better and efficient solution of exam paper leak. 2.3 CURRENT PAPER PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM At present, traditional paper printing system is being followed. Th e private printing pressundertakes the contract of paper printing by boards and universities. There is no monitoringsometimes when papers are being printed at the printing press. This gives chances of paper leak right form printing press and there are seve ral other ways to leak the paper. Some of them are: The printing press owner can print more than required number of copies and can sellit into the market. The non-responsible behavior of printing press while carrying the bunch of paper from one place to another. If the seal of the packet is broken before the exam time, it also created a problem sincethere is no mechanism is check when the seal is broken of packet. Anyone can open the bunch of papers. It does not need a security password.These drawbacks of traditional paper printing were not acceptable if something goes wrong before the examinations date arrives. The government has to suffer with huge financialloss which occurs due to re-examination as well as precious time of students also gets wasted.As far as distribution is concerned, it does not have a real time application of date and time.

2.4 ORGANISATION SURVEY We have searched industries provide all type of solutions related to examination at universitylevel, entrance level and recruitment level which includes paper setting, printing, packing anddelivery. One of such industry is PRINT- INDIA. It is one of the leading Printing Companiesd e a l i n g e x c l u s i v e l y i n c o n f i d e n t i a l j o b s f o r t h e l a s t 3 5 y e a r s . A n other international 4 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM organization is PROMETRIC. This year PROMETRIC conducted CAT 2011 exam. Westudied the examination system of both the organizations.In Question Paper printing, work is segregated into three Parts : Composing & Proofreading Printing Packing 2.4.1 Composing & Proofreading With an inhouse composing house, we do work with highest confidentiality. The facility of Proofreading is also within the premises with subject wise experts. We are having experts of almost all language for Proofreading and translations, which help us to do our jobs efficientlywithout any error. 2.4.2 Printing Secondly the composed paper is printed on latest machines available till date any quantity can be printed from 100(in lakhs) in minimum time duration. FIGURE 2.1: PRINTING MACHINE 5 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

2.4.3 Packing The third step is packing of Question Paper-Booklets. In above mentioned all steps phase no.3 which is packing, is one of the most important and crucial in itself. Today, most of our clients demand centrewise packing. We do centrewise packing with the help of computerised programming which is 99.9% error less. In this our clients / institutes provides us the paper number, quantity, centrewise distribution details. We feed all these informations in our software programme and got printed the envelope labels. Centrewise challans are also takenout of computer. 2.5 MARKET ANALYSIS Different types of safe boxes are available in the market. The boxes are password protectedand have a mechanical lock. Some of the safe boxes available in the market are: Digimatic Electronic Safety Locker Godrej Electronic E-Swipe Safe Shadows Electronic Safe Lock Godrej Electronic Taurus Safe 2.5.1 Market Analysis Inferences Lots of safe boxes are available in the market which are hi ghl y secure in terms o f t h e i r designing. But none of them has capability of real time handling. All the safe boxes are onlydesigned of the storage purpose. No electronic box is yet designed which can be used for thetransportation of the examination papers. 2.6 ONLINE EXAMINATION Online examination is a new technique to conduct an examination through internet. Theformal examination system is a very long procedure to conduct an examination. From therespect of the exam, they should give extra effort on the examination to select employees for the organization. This is a huge responsibility and extra load to the recruiter to conduct an 6 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM examination. This is very costly and extremely tedious to conduct an examination. Side byside online examination is a very sophisticated examination conducting system.Lot of companies is gladly taking this modern system to exemption form the tediouswritten examination system. Low cost, minimum effort, minimum employee deployment, saving time, instant result and conduct an examination India and abroad. FIGURE 4.8: ONLINE EXAMINATION HALL 2.6.1 Drawbacks of Online Examination Computerized testing, often described as facile and efficient, has some drawbacks. The mostcommon disadvantages are computer glitches, errors in content, and security lapses. Therehave been several documented occurrences of security breaches. One example is the GraduateRecord Examination, which in 2002 was apparently hacked and sold on the internet in Asia.This was a live and active exam, not a practice test. This had damaging consequences, not only for the test administrators, but for the thousands of students taking the test.On the practical side, some test takers report that it is more difficult to navigate back to rework problems. Some test takers are resistant to the computerized testing process becausethey are accustomed to taking notes and circling questions and/or answers for later review.Others say that they read more quickly and more easily on paper than on a glaring computer screen. Another incident of standardized test cheating on the GRE occurred when a student on 7 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM the East coast relayed information to students on the West coast; that scheme took advantageof the threehour time difference between the two regions. While electronic glitches are rare,they have been known to occur, for instance when computer crashes voided the efforts of t h o u s a n d s o f G M A T t a k e r s . T h e r e a r e a l s o c a s e s i n w h i c h t h e c o r r e c t i o n s o f t w a r e h a s corrupted scores. 2.6 MODIFICATIONS IN PROJECT Later on, there was a little bit change in our project execution idea. These changes were made because either of the non-availability of resources or some technical limitations. Some of the proposed changes in our project are: Earlier we were planning to use DS12887 RTC chip (Serial Communication) but it isnot available in the market in Jaipur. So, we have to drop our idea of using DS 12887and finally we went for DS1307 RTC chip with same function with different protocol(i 2 c protocol). Synchronization of various modules and sequential arrangement were also made dueto some technical problem and mechanical assembly.

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CHAPTER 3WORKING PRINCIPLE 3.1 INTRODUCTION The centre authority will be allowed to give command. There is only single computer whichwill be controlled by Exam cell in charge. This computer is directly connected to the printing press room. In printing press room, the computer will give command to print out the papers.There is an Infrared counter which count the number of copies printed from printer. For example, if there is a bunch of 100 papers, then only adjust number of copies will be printed.This will increase the efficiency of the system.The paper will be dropped and collected in a wooden box which is also called safe box. The box will be locked automatically. There are a known number of copies in the box. Now, this box will be passed to outside the room with the help of a conveyor belt. The boxwill be collected at window and respective boxes will be distrusted to centers respectively.Here we can observe that only person is operating the whole process. In this project,there are very few chances of paper leak. Even though, if it happens then only one person isresponsible and this will bring out the defaulter. There is no interference of Human being inthe whole process and it increases the efficiency as well as decreases the chances of paper leak. 9 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM FIGURE 3.1: FUNTIONAL BLOCK DIAGRAM 10 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM 3.2 BLOCK DIAGRAM FIGURE 3.2: BLOCK DIAGRAM

3.3 WORKING OF SAFE BOX The exam centre in-charge will be allowed to open the box after a predefined set time anddate. So when box is tried to open matching of correct password (if entered) with the date andtime at time of access is take place and box is unlocked if predefined conditions are matched.It will be much known the date and time of the exam which is going to be organized.So each paper will have some particular date and tine and the digital clock are set. The boxwill be open on the exam day pre-defined time. There is a real time control on the safe boxand it gives an additional feature to our project.There is an Electro-mechanical lock will be associated with safe box. It is similar tothe Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) lock which has a predefined password. Lock can only be open by entering the correct password in limited attempts.If someone tries to open the lock before time or tries to open the box by entering passwords beyond attempts, then alarm signal will be generated and it will give informationto the nearest police station or exam in-charge and appropriate action can be taken.So, this project will be helpful to reduce the chances of Examination paper leak. Thismethodology can be applied in many National level exams, board exams and university exams etc. This technology is helpful to reduce the government loss because there is an hugeamount of money is spent on conducting examinations at national level. It will also save thetime wasted because of re-examination conduction. 12 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM CHAPTER 4CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION 4.1 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM FIGURE 4.1: CIRCUIT DIAGRAM 13 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR

EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM 4.2 CIRCUIT WORKING The main idea of smart safe box is that digital code locked should open after the preset dateand time. So, Current date and time has to be tracked and intelligence has to be appliedaccordingly. For this purpose we are using microcontroller AT89c5l and RTC chip DSl307.AT89C5l is product from ATMEL (based on 805l architecture) DSl307 I2C serial interfacereal-time clock (RTC) is a low-power, full binary-coded decimal (BCD) clock/calendar IC.On the First use RTC, Correct Date and Time are stored in the internal registers of DS1307. Later, whenever user tries to enter password, date and Time are fetched from RTCchip. Now to enter the password, a means of communication between microcontroller anduser has to be provided. Keyboard is used as this means of communication. In our Project weare using 4*4 matrix keypad. This keypad provides 16 keys and our password length is 7, so itis sufficient for our project. Matrix keypad is designed by us as market cost is 8-9 timeshigher. Now, User can enter the password using the keypad. The LCD is used to display theoutput and the date and time. The user is given three attempts to enter the correct password. If the user fails to enter the correct password in given attempts then the system will terminateautomatically. If the user enters correct password then the electromechanical lock will openand the examination papers can be taken out. 4.3 PCB DESIGN 4.3.1 Printed Circuit Boards The miniaturization in electronic equipment design has introduced a new technique known asPrinted Circuit Board. Printed circuit board is used to interconnect various electronic circuit printed on it and is provided with holes to accommodate various electronic components.Printed circuit board (PCB) consists of an insulating base substrate, which is rigid, with metallic circuitry photo chemically formed up on the substrate. Interconnections betweencomponents are achieved by means of conducting paths (thin Cu film) running on or throughthe substrate called tracks. The width of the tracks depends on the amount of current it has tocarry. The tracks meet components to which they are to be connected by means of Land or pads which takes form of larger area of Cu. The lands may be of different shapes and sizes 14 EC-A/2011-12/PIET, JAIPUR EXAMPAPERSECURITYSYSTEM and have holes drilled through them. These holes can either accommodate component leads or via-holes. The via holes also known as plated through holes (PTH) provide connectionst h r o u g h t h e s u b s t r a t e t o o t h e r t r a c k a r e a s . T h e s e a r o u s e d i n c a s e o f d o u b l e s i d e d a n d multilayer PCBs only. FIGURE 4.2 PCB FEATURES Once PCB is designed and fabricated, the circuit can be assembled easily by mountingand soldering the component in the holes provided for them.