was created in 1959. From then on and during the following decades, this body dedicated a special effort to develop urban and interurban traffic control facilities. In fact, this body was a pioneer in using information technology for this task, with its first computer being acquired in 1964.
traffic regulation was one of the main areas of SICE's work. However, the company intended to install these systems and wanted to control all the phases of the process, from manufacturing and installing the necessary equipment to their management and maintenance. SICE was leaving its path of electrical product distribution to become a service company. For this reason, at this time in its history, the construction of the factory in Coslada was essential.
lamps, dimmers and traffic lights were being manufactured. These products were used in SICE installations and those carried out by other lighting, signalling and traffic regulation companies.
in the field of electronics that resulted in the development of microprocessors was, at that point, key in the company's trajectory. Since the 1960s, SICE has worked with traffic regulators that integrated the management of fixed and variable times.
These regulators were also complemented with equipment for the electromagnetic detection of vehicles on the road.
Starting in the 1960s, regulators began to use electronics with transistor integrated circuits in parallel with electromechanical relays.
In 1971, with the appearance of the 4004 microprocessor presented by the Intel company, an infinite world of development possibilities opened up for electronic systems, with a technology that had been unthinkable until then. In 1976, SICE developed its first traffic light monitor based on Intel's 8008 8-bit microprocessor. In 1978, it used the same microprocessor, the first centralised traffic control.
the 1980s, would lead to the consolidation of IT applied to traffic regulation. From then on, regulators integrated microprocessors that could be centralised.