🏷️ Tagging Water Events: What It Is and Why It Matters

Tagging water events helps Droplet learn your household’s specific water usage patterns. While not required, tagging is a powerful way to improve detection accuracy over time—for you and for all Droplet users.

When you tag a fixture—like a shower, faucet, or toilet—you’re telling Droplet, “This is what this type of water use looks like.” That feedback helps train our detection algorithms to:

🔁 You don’t have to tag every event. Even tagging each fixture just twice makes a meaningful impact.

If you see a notification or water event that you know is a leak, be sure to tap “It’s a leak!” in the app. This helps us:

The more confirmed leaks we receive, the better our system becomes at detecting and classifying them for everyone.

If you have multiple similar fixtures (e.g. multiple sinks or outdoor spigots), you can give them custom names to make tagging easier and more specific.

To rename fixtures:

This helps both you and Droplet better understand which fixture was in use—and improves the value of tagging.

No—Droplet works even without tagging. But if you’d like to help fine-tune your device’s accuracy (and support future features), tagging helps a lot.

It won’t immediately change how events show up in your dashboard, but it helps Droplet learn in the background.

You can tag a water event while it’s happening—here’s how:

📌 Tip: Tag the event before it ends, not after. Droplet uses live flow data to match tagging feedback to the water pattern.

Keep in mind that for fixtures that run using cycles of water, like dishwashers or washing machines, you’ll only be able to tag them while they’re filling with water, not during the entire load.

See the options to Tag a Fixture, tag It's a leak! or Edit & Label Fixtures

This is just the beginning for fixture tagging—we’re planning more features in future releases, including retroactive tagging, to improve this experience even more.