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PBOX
Proctoring Based Online Examination System
Edited by DR. DIBAKAR RAY nline examination system is the necessity of
the current time but very few of the online
Oexamination systems allow examination to
be conducted over a disturbed network along
with online proctoring. With this inspiration NIC
has developed PBOX which is a proctoring based
system providing functionalities more focused
PBOX provides the ability towards network resiliency and security which
are the two prime and critical aspects of an
to conduct exam in a much examination in the context of India. This system
is powered by many prominent technology stacks
scalable, secured and network like Big Data, Progressive Web App, Service worker, encrypted questions from the central server.
AI/ML and containerized platform which enable it
resilient way with additional to provide functionalities in a very unique way. Features
provisions to be deployed in Modes of implementation Examination configuration
Each examination can be configured separately
on-campus mode. It provides Online mode at a very granular level like examination
All candidates will appear for the examination specific instructions, slots and their timings,
a mechanism to do auto remotely and central server will handle all the need of proctoring service or not, need of Face
proctoring powered by AI / requests. Authentication or not, various system generated
On-campus Mode messages, deployment related configuration like
ML on the edge device itself The candidates will appear the examination use of message broker is required or not etc.
from the centres in an intranet environment, Question & candidate Data Upload
without sending each frame where the local server at the center will fetch the The exam conducting body can upload
to the server. It allows the
Fig:1 Deployment architecture in dedicated Kubernetes Cluster
candidate to continue exams in
Redis
disturbed network environment In Memory
by buffering the answers Database
during the offline period along
with many other innovations. Firewall
IDS
Rama Krishna NGINX
Sahoo Node Js Node Js Mongo DB Arango DB
Scientist-D Express Js Express Js No SQL Multimodal
rk.sahoo@nic.in IPS PM2 PM2 Zoo Keeper Database Database
Niladri Bihari
Mohanty
Scientist-C
niladri.mohanty@nic.in ModSec NGINX Kurento File Server
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