In the 1940s, against the background of the Second World War in full swing, Oberpfaffenhofen FFO was ordered to develop airborne interception radar equipment for the military government, and the FuG 200 radar system was developed.

The FuG 200 radar system is mainly used to detect and locate surface combatant and provide navigation for aircraft by using ground echo. However, this radar system has extremely heavy and complex antennas.

In the 1950s, with the rapid development of transistor and semiconductor technology, the performance and physical characteristics of radar equipment also made revolutionary breakthroughs. Since the triode-based oscillating circuits were simpler and lighter, engineers began to consider whether radar equipment can show great power in other fields.

In the 1960s, Friedrich, an engineer in measurement and control technology who was part of the Oberpfaffenhofen，FFO, started working on the industrial application of wireless measurement and control technology in cooperation with the tough Krupp Crop.

In the 1970s, Friedrich joined Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, devoted himself to the R&D of instrumentation technology, and established the Institute of Measurement (IPM) in Freiburg, Germany to develop marine measurement radar for Electric Boat of General Dynamics.

In the 1980s, IPM successfully developed a radar level transmitter with a transmission frequency of 26GHz, which was popularized and applied in shipbuilding, chemical industry, thermal power, nuclear energy and other industries under the brand of AUTOL.

In the late 1990s, after the technology was formed, AUTOL chose to cooperate with BOSCH to co-develop plicscom software platform for radar internal system design, which made it more convenient for users to use radar instrument products with modular and stylized design.

From 2002 to 2015, with the improvement of circuit integration, the core of AUTOL product was upgraded step by step. The radar wave emitting components can be made much compacter, and the same volume of emitting components can emit higher frequency radar wave.

In 2015 and 2016, AUTOL launched two brand-new high-frequency radars with strong penetration, accurate measurement and strong anti-interference capability. The new radar instrument draws lessons from the coding signal technology used by large military radar. Each instrument has a unique signal code, which will not be interfered by other microwave signals, and the recognition operation speed has been greatly improved.