Keylok - Software Control

Software Control and Keylok™

Two key miniSim applications are controlled via a USB security device called a Keylok. This device has a NADS-programmable expiration date, for which NADS provides renewals at the time of payment of the software support and maintenance fee.

miniSim and Tile Mosaic Tool (TMT) applications

Only two applications require a valid Keylok to operate:

• NADS miniSim™ real-time driving simulation software
• NADS TMT™ virtual environment authoring tool with 92 sample tiles

The miniSim and TMT applications are typically installed on the simulator PC. Two Keyloks are supplied so that, in addition to the simulator, the miniSim application can be run on a laptop or development PC for scenario testing and development.

The TMT is used to assemble road networks (or ‘map’) of your design. It is best run on the same machine where the miniSim installation is present, as the export process generates many files that are to be accessed by the miniSim when it runs a scenario.

Note: two Keyloks are supplied.

Integrated Scenario Authoring Tool (ISAT) and nDAQTools

These applications do not require a Keylok to operate.

You may install ISAT on any Windows 7, 8, or 10 desktop or laptop so that you can Create, Rehearse and Replay scenarios anywhere. A single file created by the TMT is opened by ISAT to represent the map during scenario authoring.

The nDAQTools application runs within a MATLAB™ environment (not supplied), and is used to calculate measures from the time-history data recorded by the miniSim. This also can be done on any Windows PC with MATLAB installed. Some miniSim users have found that Python can be used instead of MATLAB, and have created an open source Python library called unDAQTools available on Github. The unDAQTools library

You can install ISAT on any windows PC/laptop. We do not keylok this software.

Only the miniSim and the TMT need a keylok. If you want to use TMT on another PC, you will need a keylok. If your site does not already have two keyloks, we can send another one (limit 2 keyloks per site).

ISAT is a windows application and we only support running it on Windows. It will probably work on a Mac with dual boot to Windows. However, users have reported stability issues with Windows emulators or Virtual Machine software that runs in the Mac OS and we do not recommend this approach.

Also, when installing ISAT, do not use the default folder location. We have found that the default location in C:\ProgramFiles (x86) causes issues with Windows User Access Control (UAC). Instead, create a new folder called: C:\NADS_ISAT. This will ensure that you have proper read/write access.