Long description:

This three-volume set CCIS 1755-1757 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2022, held in Quito, Ecuador, in November 2022. 

The 112 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 415 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: human computing and information science, IT financial and business management.

Table of Contents:

?AT for Engineering Applications.- Low Cycle Fatigue in Welded Reinforcing Steel Bars.-Spirometer with automatic disinfection.- Nonlinear behavior of Steel frames with concentric and eccentric bracing.- Tensile strength PLA reinforced with perolera pineapple fiber comparison, based on the reinforcement fiber direction.- Evaluation of horizontal and vertical positions obtained from an unmanned aircraft vehicle applied to large scale cartography of infrastructure loss due to the earthquake of April 2016 in Ecuador.- Masonry reinforcement using cabuya fiber and perimetral electro-welded mesh.- Evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of the Huachi Chico parish in Ecuador.- Proposal for a unique Cartographic Projection System for the Galapagos Islands in order to generate cartography at large scales.- Prioritization of a micro-basin of the Daule river sub-basin with strong erosional problems and their effect to the turbidity of the waterin the city of Guayaquil, coastal Ecuador.- Water, sanitation and socioeconomic situation in two communities in the Cayapas river, Ecuador.- Application of Ecuadorian ferrotitaniferous sands in reinforcing epoxy composites.- Behavior of influencing parameters of the Fused Deposition Modeling process in dissimilar combinations: polymer-3D printer.- Bamboo Cellulose Textile Filament "Angustifolia" Floating Root Resin.- Development of a settlementmeter for the control and monitoring of embankments through the use of artificial intelligence.- Removal of arsenic and heavy metals from contaminated water with emerging sorbents.- Implementation of the CAESAR-Lisflood cellular automated landscape evolution model to determine possible flood areas in the Portoviejo river sub-basin, Coastal Ecuador.- Exergetic analysis of reheating and regeneration alternatives in steam cycles for the generation of electricity from municipal solid waste.- Water qualityand dynamic time series based on meteorological variables at the Muisne station located in the Bunche enclosure, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.- Electronics.- An electronic equipment for monitoring, detection and warning of pitch motion of vehicle drivers.- Pose Estimation for Nonlinear Visual Servo Control of an Omnidirectional Platform.- Design of a Model Based Predictive Control (MPC) Strategy for a Desalination Plant in a Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Environment.- Modeling of a Robotic Arm for the Appli-cation of Welding Processes.- Passive Positioning of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.- Hybrid Storage System based on Rectenna and Photovoltaic Cells for Low Power IoT Wireless Devices.- Design and construction of an anthropomorphic robotic head with gestural projection.- Energy harvesting: energy sources, excitation type and conversion mechanisms.- Experimental study of a flat solar collector with thermal energy storage, applying improvements based on bibliometric review and CAD simulation.- Implementation of PID and MPC controllers for a quadruple tank process in a 3D virtual system, using the hardware in the loop technique.- Advanced Control Algorithms for a Horizontal Three-Phase Separator in a Hardware in the Loop Simulation Environment.- Appropriate technology for solar thermal desalination by concentration applied the humidification-dehumidification method.- Practical Framework for Optimal Planning of Microgrids for Production Processes.- Knowledge Exploration in Life Sciences.- Impacto de la asociación quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) haba (Vicia faba L.) en la producción agrícola, fijación biológica y reciclaje de Nitrógeno.- Evaluation of the environmental impacts generated by the management of urban solid waste in the open waste dump in Loreto, Eastern Ecuador.- Spatial and temporal distribution of salinity levels and macronutrients of soils after the construction of dams on tropical dry forest.- The importance of epigenetics in leukemia.