All dongle/hardware lock (HWL) based versions of PLAXIS 2D/3D are treated as "V8i SELECTseries 10" according to Bentley's Support Policy. This means that Bentley will discontinue support for hardware lock based versions of PLAXIS after December 31, 2021. This includes PLAXIS 2D 2019 and older, and PLAXIS 3D 2018 and older.
In these challenging times when COVID-19 is imposing significant disruptions to day-to-day activities and affecting normal business flow of our much-valued users and employees, we at Bentley are mindfully committed to ensuring a smooth transition of work from the office to a remote location or home. Our innovative software and services are all geared for working from home or remote locations and do not impose the need to be in an office set-up.
In general, Bentley software offers a flexible online licencing system: CONNECT License via the CONNECTION Client. However, this is not applicable to these older PLAXIS versions: the PLAXIS Legacy versions are licensed via a hardware dongle key: the CodeMeter key, making it hardware locked software (PLAXIS HWL). The latest PLAXIS versions are already under the new online and flexible licence system.
If you are interested to switch to the dongle-less version for more flexibility and online licence verification, please contact the PLAXIS team via this email address:
sa...@plaxis.com
In some cases, the network protocols as setup by your company might prevent proper communication. This happens for instance when using Microsoft Direct Access. If this is the case, please consider upgrading to the more flexible Bentley CONNECT Licencing system with online verification of the available licences.
Ask our team sa...@plaxis.com on how to upgrade and benefit from a dongle-less solution.
I want to record various physiological signals using the a DFRobot Bluno Beetle (sort of like a simplified Arduino Uno with Bluetooth) and transmit them via Bluetooth to a PC (with a USB Bluetooth link dongle) where they will be stored for offline processing. Essentially - a Bluetooth DAQ.
I've managed to send 4 analog inputs measured by the Bluno Beetle via BT to my laptop which plots them in real time using the Serial Plotter. I've also managed to impose a sampling frequency - a fixed/constant frequency at which I read and send my analog samples. I did this by basically measuring the current time, and when the current time exceeds a fixed, pre-defined, sampling interval, I take new samples and send them. So far so good.
The only avenue for a legally-enforceable restriction against running your own network on campus would be via the contract arising from enrollment at the school. If this is a government-operated school, this is not a long-run option (though it may take a lawsuit to sort that out). A private school has the right to impose all sorts of arbitrary restrictions on their customers, but government action (policies created by state schools) can't arbitrarily restrict the freedom of action of those subject to its jurisdiction. If this is a state school, they may try to argue that such networks interefere with the operation of the campus network, but that is a factually dubiuous claim. Still, if they could show that running a hot spot interferes with the school's operation, then they might prevail under an intermediate-scrutiny review.
R2V applications can be classified as high-priority and low-priority safety applications. High-priority safety applications are targeted at avoiding imminent crashes and minimizing the damage when collisions become unavoidable. These applications impose several requirements on the communication system. The communication latency has to be minimized in order to offer the driver or the vehicle enough time to take action and the communication system must provide high reliability. Low-priority safety applications aim to increase driver safety, but do not require an immediate driver reaction, because the hazards are not imminent. This includes warning the driver of weather and road conditions, traffic, construction zones, reduced visibility or warning signals.
For these experiments, two laptops with a Bluetooth 2.1 Universal Serial Bus (USB) dongle were deployed maintaining a distance of 2.5 m between them. Both dongles were connected to 3 dBi omnidirectional antennas. The operating system of the computers was linux. Using the utilities included in the BlueZ package the influence of inquiry_scan_window, the interlace mode and inquiry_scan_interval parameters were evaluated.
The first test was done in the surroundings of the campus; see Figure 8. There was one fixed transmitter placed at one point and a mobile receiver moving away from that point. Both devices used a commercial, unmodified, Bluetooth dongle of Class 1 (100 mW), specifically, the Parani UD100 model from Sena Technologies Inc. (San Jose, CA, USA).
The Commission says that if service providers do not honour the spending limit set by the customers, national authorities will deal with complaints, and impose sanctions on operators if they consider it necessary to enforce today's new rules, which are part of the Commission's latest legislation on mobile phone charges.
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