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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.

  1. Give yourself a point up to a maximum of 2 per category for each device in your home,
  2. add them up and
  3. look at the scale to determine how smart your home is:

 

Lights and switcheslutron

e.g., Philips Hue, Lutron Caseta

 Locks and doorbellsaugust

e.g., August locks, Ring Doorbell, Yale Locks and Door Viewers
Security Camerasarlo1

e.g., Nest Cam, Arlo Cameras, Logi Circle

 Temperature and environment controlnest-thermostat

e.g., Nest thermostats and smoke detectors, Ecobee thermostats, Netatmo
Security alarms and Sensorsismart

e.g., Skylink, iSmart Alarms, D-Link Water Sensor

 Otherchamberlain

e.g., Circle with Disney,Chamberlain Garage Door Openers, Rachio Sprinklers

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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

 

How smart is your home contest rules and regulations

Martin Renaud
Martin Renaud
Editor in Chief
Martin loves working with the talented editors and writers on the Best Buy Blog as Editor-in-Chief. During his spare time he is either working on his next novel, cooking up a masterpiece in the kitchen, or adding some smart tech to his new home on Mayne Island in British Columbia.
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  5. Ideal Security Flood & Overflow Sensor Alarm – A neighbour had a water tank failure recently when they weren’t home and it was messy.

  33. We would really like to have Nest thermostats and smoke detectors. It is time to replace the smoke detectors, so we are definitely looking at them.

  35. Swann 4-Channel 500GB DVR Security System with 2 Bullet 720p Cameras – White
    Web Code: 10394628 Model #: SWDVK-443502-CA

    Looks great!

  37. I’d love to have the NETGEAR Arlo Security System with 4 Wire-Free 720p Cameras & 2 Q 1080p Cameras! This would make me feel much safer with my two little ones in the home!

  38. Id really like to get my hands on a Smart Thermostat and the EcoBee3 has been on my radar for awhile. I think the smart thermostat would go a long way into getting the family on board with more smart features in the future

  41. My home is slow. Getting everybody on board to some smart home features has been harder than I anticipated.

  45. I have already asked Santa (read as myself) to bring me an Ecobee3.
    I’d really like to take hold of my heating/cooling charges while ensuring I help a Canadian company!

  48. My house is probably somewhere between slow and average, but I do have good high end deadbolts on the doors. They aren’t smart in the sense of this grade, but it is a good idea not to use cheap deadbolts.

    • Good deadbolts are smart to have that’s true. I like how August locks allow you to keep the deadbolts you have, but basically automate them so they open as you get close to the door, but stay locked for everyone else! Very cool.

  49. I would love to add this item to make my home ‘smarter’: Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation

  50. Wow…my home is really slow. I need these smart home products to make my home a GENIUS. Fingers crossed 🙂

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