The first step was a name change to distinguish ADT’s residential and commercial business sides, but the biggest change came yesterday when Tyco Integrated Security (TIS) shed its ADT roots altogether as part of parent company Tyco International’s split into three separate, publicly traded companies.
The three independent companies are ADT Corp., which provides alarm installation and monitoring services for residential and small business customers in North America; Tyco, which is made up of Tyco’s security and fire businesses (including TIS); and Pentair Ltd., the company’s new flow control business unit.