WS Atkins - Protocol design and management
1996 - Maintenance and monitoring - Thames Waterways:

Accurately plotted and surveyed plans of the Thames Valley waterways were transformed from DOS CAD drawings into Unix G.I.S. systems, creating a computer model for expedient monitoring feedback.

Keeping a high level of accuracy for verifiable data, the protocol used a tight tolerance to keep the water management system transfer precise. Automation of the process was achieved by protocol.

Thames Waterways update from the source to date.