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Resideo

American industrial company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ110443096
Source-derived summary

Resideo Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational company that was formed in 2018 out of a spin-off from Honeywell. It provides room air temperature, quality, and humidity control and security systems primarily in residential dwellings in the U.S. and internationally. The company operates in two segments: products and distribution. It manufactures and distributes smart-home and software products, including temperature and lighting control, security, and water and air monitoring. The company also distributes security, fire and low-voltage products. The company has over 13,000 employees globally, and products in over 150 million households.

History

Spin-off

Honeywell spun off the Homes and Distribution business in October 2018 as part of a corporate restructuring program. The new company was named Resideo. Shares in the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol REZI.

Roger Fradin, a former vice chairman of Honeywell, was named board chair.

Editorial summary

“Resideo” enters the record as american industrial company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Resideo, American and industrial can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Resideo, American and industrial.
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Why this record matters

“Resideo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Resideo, American and industrial provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110443096. None of the 8 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Resideo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.