[andrewrn]

This vaguely reminds me of when I briefly worked at an oil company as a drafter. All their P&ID's are drawn in AutoCAD .dwg files, which isn't searchable at all or intelligible to the computer. AutoCAD sucks and has a stranglehold on these older "systems" drawings (as opposed to individual mechanical parts). Also, each company has its own different drawing spec and you need to have a lot of domain knowledge to understand a drawing. I had this grand idea that I didn't follow through with of JSON-defined "drawings" that could then be rendered to svg. Maybe a graph data structure would be better to represent the data. This would make them searchable, and LLM-ready so you could ask natural language questions of an entire refinery or pipeline or water treatment plant or chemical plant.

Not quite the same as its not real-time SCADA, but still interesting. It seems like there is big opportunity here for someone who can crack it.