The problem of the lack of automation of manufacturing, monitoring and control processes in the Ecuadorian pharmaceutical industry is evident. This is why an analysis of the current situation of pharmaceutical companies operating in Ecuador to identify these shortcomings in the resources used was conducted in order to propose a technological tool to address these needs. This study considered several issues related to the pharmaceutical industry which are: manufacturing process and monitoring methodologies, process automation, technological tools, interoperability of systems, software engineering component-based approach. A field study was developed. For the study a population of 13 pharmaceutical companies in the province of Guayas whose production lines specialize in injectables and tablets were considered, a sample of 8 pharmaceutical laboratories was selected. The main beneficiaries of this proposal are the people involved in research and institutions, laboratories, employees and researchers who are involved with the pharmaceutical industry of Ecuador. Based on the analysis results it was found that most pharmaceutical companies in the province of Guayas do not have a technological tool that serves to automate their manufacturing, monitoring and control processes.

This paper reflects the benefits to control transit countries have adopted architecture of intelligent transportation systems as a model for the deployment of intelligent traffic systems. Efforts are evident in the traffic control agencies of Ecuador in generating and implementing projects to improve their controls of transit using information technology and communication, however interoperability and heterogeneity are due deficiencies deployments that are performed without using a model that the normal and standardized. The recent creation of autonomous governments who will within its competence, traffic control, evidence a risk of implementing new traffic control systems, exacerbating the problem continue. This research proposes the adoption of a Framework for the design of an ITS Architecture in Ecuador which aims to improve the interoperability of existing systems from a model for deploying new traffic control systems.

The recent implementation of biometrics solutions for user authentication in public networks has caused great concern about the safety and privacy of biometric data. Different vulnerabilities detected on automated fingerprint identification systems could reveal minutiae data if they are stored in plain text. In order to solve these security issues, several fingerprint minutiae template protection schemas have been proposed, among which there are the fuzzy vault, biohasing and cancellable or non-invertible fingerprint templates. To carry out an efficient biometric data protection process, the schema must meet three basic requirements: cryptographic security, revocability and performance; however, most of the schemas described to date fail in this task. A fingerprint minutiae template protection scheme must capture as much identifying information of the fingerprint as possible and solve the problem of template alignment before the comparison process is performed in the protected domain. A study on the cryptographic scheme of fingerprint minutiae template protection models and alignment methods was conducted in this work. Emphasis was placed on the cryptographic bases of minutiae template protection scheme and existing algorithms for aligning protected templates, highlighting the weaknesses of each one. As a result, the knowledge necessary to design an alignment-free minutiae template protection model was obtained.