FRAMES

The FRAMES (Facial Recognition Attendance Monitoring for Education Sindh) mobile application is a flagship digital initiative by the School Education & Literacy Department (SELD), Government of Sindh. Designed to enhance transparency, accountability, and governance, FRAMES replaces manual attendance with a secure, AI-driven facial recognition system for teaching and non-teaching staff across all public schools in Sindh.
This app is the first phase of a broader digital transformation project aimed at monitoring over 5.5 million users across 41,210+ schools in the province.
Key Features
1. Secure Facial Recognition Attendance
• AI-Powered Authentication: Mark attendance using advanced facial recognition technology, ensuring accurate and tamper-proof identity verification.
• Adaptive Recognition: The system accurately recognizes faces in different lighting and background conditions, ensuring flexibility and ease of use.
• Liveness Detection: Anti-spoofing features prevent proxy attendance or identity fraud using photos or videos.
2. One-Time Facial Registration & HRMS Verification
• HRMS Integration: During registration, employees verify their identity using their CNIC and PID against the official HRMIS database.
3. Geo-Fencing & Location Validation
• School-Premises Attendance: Attendance can only be marked within a configurable radius (in meters) of the employee's assigned school location, defined by precise latitude and longitude.
• Real-Time GPS Tracking: The app compares real-time GPS coordinates against pre-approved school locations; attendance is automatically rejected if the user is outside the permitted boundary.
4. Offline Mode & Auto-Sync
• Work Without Internet: The app functions flawlessly in offline mode, caching, timestamped attendance logs locally on the device.
• Seamless Synchronization: Once an internet connection is restored, all pending attendance data is automatically and securely synced with the central MIS.
5. Leave Management System
• Apply for Leave: Employees can submit leave applications (casual, sick, earned) directly through the app, uploading supporting documents (e.g., medical certificates).
• Workflow Approvals: Integrated approval mechanism where headmasters, TEOs, and district officers can approve or reject requests with remarks.
• Real-Time Balance: Leave balances are updated in real-time according to SELD policy, preventing users from exceeding their allowed leave.
• Notification: Users can see notifications when leave is applied, approved, rejected, or if there are updates.
6. User-Friendly Dashboard
• Personalized Dashboard: Each user has a personalized dashboard to view attendance logs, leave history, and profile details.
• Detailed Logs: Every attendance record includes date/time, attendance status, GPS location, and facial match confirmation.
7. Feedback & Support
• SOP & User Guide: A comprehensive user guideline with step-by-step instructions, visuals, and best practices is available within the app for easy reference.
8. Notifications
• Escalations: Alerts are sent for repeated absenteeism, proxy attempts, or missed geo-fence validations.
9. Data Security & Privacy
• Device Integrity: The app detects rooted/jailbroken devices and blocks unauthorized access.
• One-Device Policy: Enforces a one-device-per-user control to reduce misuse.

Recent changes:
- Improved attendance accuracy within the configured school range.
- Enhanced face verification within school premises.
- Improved attendance and data synchronization.
- Corrected staff attendance counts on the HM School dashboard.
- Updated HM Dashboard with required enhancements.
- Added app version validation for attendance and login access.
- Added a refresh option for attendance synchronization.
- Prevented logout while attendance records are pending synchronization.