The people who make up Diablo Controls pioneered the most important innovations in the history of the traffic control industry. This group changed the entire course of traffic control electronics by introducing microcontrollers to the traffic and parking industries in the late 1960's and early 1970's  

 

They developed the industry's first microprocessor NEMA controller. 

The first microcontroller safety monitor. 

The first digital period-measurement vehicle detector. 

The first liquid crystal display traffic controller. 

The lowest power (approx. 6 milliwatts) battery operated vehicle detector. 

The first multi-tasking based (City wide) central traffic control master -- 

still in use throughout the United States. 

With the founding of Diablo Controls, the team is focusing on the basics- simple, reliable products. The industry needs a simple vehicle detector without complicated diagnostics, unnecessary displays, or expensive cameras. The mission is to produce trouble-free products that can be installed and forgotten! 

This remarkable team has more inductive loop vehicle detectors currently operating to their credit than any other group in the world. Innovations include anti-coincidence and directional logic equipment. 

The team were the original inventors of the many patents for bi-directional vehicle/loop communications and preemption products, in addition to software algorithms for determining the number of vehicles passing over a loop. Additionally, they have developed many other traffic related products such as a spread-spectrum radio interconnect system and a real-time GPS time clock.