Flo by Moen Smart Water Shutoff
Moen (Fortune Brands Innovations) · Smart Water / Utility
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Index
Flo meters water flow through the whole house at fine resolution, which is exactly the signal needed to infer when people shower, wake, sleep, leave and return - a detailed occupancy and routine fingerprint - and it retains up to three years of that usage history. Moen's policy allows sharing aggregated/anonymized water-use data with partners and publishing community trends, and supports opt-in integrations that transfer data to third parties including insurance providers. Independent privacy scrutiny of the device is minimal, so the evidence picture is thin.
Why this rating
Policy is penalized for high-resolution whole-home water telemetry that reveals daily routines and occupancy far beyond leak detection (sensitive-collection), a multi-year retention window (indefinite/long retention), vague sharing language, unilateral changes and arbitration; opt-in insurance/third-party integrations add disclosure risk. Evidence is capped and confidence low because the practices come essentially from Moen's own policy with no meaningful independent privacy or security coverage of the device - effectively unstudied - so the evidence score is held at or below 60 and no incident was fabricated.
What it is
- Requires a cloud account
- Manufacturer
- Moen (Fortune Brands Innovations)
- Category
- Smart Water / Utility
- Model years
- 2020-present
- Market status
- Current
- Companion app
- Flo by Moen
Descriptive, cited, not legal advice; ratings are versioned and corrections create a new version. Data from the IoT Info Grabber DB research project, CC BY-SA 4.0.