Smart homes are so called because they make life easier, safer, and more fun. Over the past few years more and more people have been making their homes incrementally smarter by adding one device at a time. This contest is your chance to give your home’s IQ a major boost. We are giving away over $5000 in prizes!
We are familiar with other forms of intelligence; mental IQ and Emotional Intelligence, EQ, are based on the work of Frenchman Alfred Binet who was tasked with creating a way to assess which children needed educational assistance. If Binet could time travel to 2016 to create a method of estimating “Domestic IQ” he would probably begin by looking at how smart the average home is in each area of Canada, then look at the smartest homes and the things that make them smart and arrive at some sort of scale to meaningfully bridge the gap.
Domestic IQ
We don’t have the benefit of the expert Binet to create a Domestic IQ scale so I will have to propose one. We know that millions of Canadians already have at least one smart home device, though many homes are still without any, so that must be the lower extreme; many other people have their homes loaded with smart lights, locks, cameras, sensors etc. Your home is probably somewhere between the two extremes. I listed 6 basic types of smart home categories and some examples of products in each.
- Give yourself a point up to a maximum of 2 per category for each device in your home,
- add them up and
- look at the scale to determine how smart your home is:
Lights and switches
e.g., Philips Hue, Lutron Caseta |
Locks and doorbells
e.g., August locks, Ring Doorbell, Yale Locks and Door Viewers |
Security Cameras
e.g., Nest Cam, Arlo Cameras, Logi Circle |
Temperature and environment control
e.g., Nest thermostats and smoke detectors, Ecobee thermostats, Netatmo |
Security alarms and Sensors
e.g., Skylink, iSmart Alarms, D-Link Water Sensor |
Other
e.g., Circle with Disney,Chamberlain Garage Door Openers, Rachio Sprinklers |
Is your house a GENIUS? Enter this contest and with over $5000 in prizes your home will be well on its way to becoming really smart if you win.
HOW TO ENTER:
You can submit a maximum of 2 entries for this contest. In a comment at the bottom of this blog article, tell us how smart your house is using the scale above: is it slow, average, clever, smart, or a GENIUS. In a separate comment, tell us one smart home product found at Best Buy that you would like to add to your home in the next year.
WHAT YOU CAN WIN:
We will randomly draw 10 winners. One person will win the Grand prize, one person will win the second prize and 8 people will each win one of the 8 individual prizes. The Prizes are shown here and also in the Rules and Regulations posted below.
Grand Prize | Second Prize |
ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS August Smart Lock 2 – Silver – HomeKit edition August Doorbell Cam – Dark Gray AUGUST CONNECT 2 EN August Keypad – Dark Gray – EN LUTRON CASETA WRLSS SMART LIGHTING KIT ECOBEE3 HMK ENABLE SMRT THRMSTAT W/RS ECOBEE3 EB-RSE3PK2C-01 REMOTE SNSR 2 PK Circle with Disney Dog & Bone LockSmart Silver Keyless BT D-LINK DCH-S160 WI-FI WATER SENSOR |
ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS Ring Video Doorbell Pro YALE KY FREE LCK PSH BTTN SATIN NCKL Circle with Disney |
Individual Prizes
Ring of Security Kit- Satin Nickel
Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera
Circle with Disney
YALE LOOK DIGITAL DOOR VIEWER WIFI
YALE VDF KY FREE LCK PSH BTTN BRONZE
LOGI CIRCLE PORTABLE HOME CAMERA BLK
D-Link DCS-5010L Pan/Tilt Camera
SKYLINK SKBB-2S SECURITY KIT
The contest runs from October 21st until November 3rd.
Remember you can enter twice, in separate comments below this blog article. Be sure to tell your friends and family so they too have a chance to raise the Domestic IQ of their homes.
Good Luck
I love in an old condo building hence it is slow–could benefit from this contest!
I would love to add a Ring doorbell to my home.
I’d like to add the NETGEAR Arlo Wireless Security System with 4 Wire-Free 720p Cameras to my home.
I would like to add the Myfox Wi-Fi Security System to my home..
My home is pretty slow when it comes to being a smart home!
My house is oh so slow!
A home security camera
Our house is sadly a slow 2 on the scale.
My house is barely average and probably below average, lots of room to improve!
My house is probably a 3 on the smart scale. With my security system I can monitor the house from my smart phone etc but I would really like to have the D-LINK DCH-S160 WI-FI WATER SENSOR to enhance its capabilities even more and give me peace of mind
Most interesting product:
Philips Hue A19 Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit (458967) – Multi-colour
My house is at 0 :/
I’d like to add the NEST Cam Outdoor Security Camera to my home.
Our home is slow and really needs this prize to get to genius status!
I would love to add the Nest Thermostat to my house. It would be so smart and efficient!
My house is far too slow! Would love to boost it up.
I would upgrade to iSmart alarms first of all. Chamberlain garage door openers and the door locks would be next priority.
Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera
I will say our house is slow, but after learning about all these new tech products it will soon be genius!
the temperature nest control looks like fun
I’m ohhh soo low
Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera
Average
My house is about a 4-5 on the scale. I have smart light switches and lightbulbs but there’s further I’d like to take it.
Nest Home Thermostat
Clever
I’d like to add a Ring doorbell.
We are currently on rent so I can say it’s Slow but, you know what, when my home is ready (next Spring), I bet it would be Genius Status as my husband is the tech savy guy !
D-LINK DCH-S160 WI-FI WATER SENSOR 🙂
oh so slow 🙁
I would really love to get either a Nest or Ecobee smart thermostat!
Our home is rather slow. Would love to see it become a genius home though!
I have a programmable thermostat but I’d like to upgrade to a Nest thermostat.
We’d love to add the August Doorbell cam to our home!
I like the Ring doorbell especially.
Our home is definitely SLOW! I’d love for it to reach Genius Status! 🙂
My house is slow–could benefit from this contest!
Security Camera
Slow
My house is SLOW, very slow.
I would love to upgrade to a smart thermostat. Many times when we are out for the day, we think: why didn’t we turn down the thermostat & save some heating $$
MY HOUSE IS DEAD SLOW. I NEED A LOT OF HELP TO SPEED THINGS UP !
Nest Cam
my home is smart
I would like to add the Myfox Wi-Fi Security System to my home..
I would love to put in the HD camera security system, break ins seem to be happening more and more
Nest cam would be my choice.
my home is a big old 3, that’s right average, and I would like it to be a genius and make all the other houses jealous
If they had Mensa ratings for a house, mine would be a Genius.
I would like to have the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation
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