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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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2278 COMMENTS

  1. I would love to add the August door bell cam to my smart lock to make it more clever and secure. Being able to see who’s at the door even when I am not home, will make using my remote unlock app easier.

  4. My home is slow. I would add the Philips Hue A19 Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit to our home in the next year

  8. Do not have any devises on the scale. But hope to eventually add many of the devises on the website. Very slow…

  9. Would love to purchase a Nest for our home. Our family has been looking at this programmable thermostat over the past few years and know that this would be very beneficial in managing hydro consumption.

  10. My home would rate a 1 or 2 or slow. In theory, all these smart features would be a wonderful and helpful addition to a home but they are a very expensive upgrade to any home. It’s something my family, overtime would like to implement to our home, especially a smart thermostat.

  11. Would probably love the ecobee smart thermostat, as we are always changing the temperature the moment we get home. If we could adjust it before and have the house comfortable for when we arrive, it would be heaven.

  12. My home is slow. We have 2 small kids (1 special needs) and my parents living in the basement. Not much money to spend on smart home gadgets.

  13. I would love to add the Nest Camera to my home, -: it would be compatible with my nest thermostat and just the beginning of converting my house to a smart home!

  15. I Am interested in the Nest thermostats and smoke detectors, as a starting point in doing some conversions in my house, to make it smarter than it is at the moment.

  16. My home would be rated at the slowest rate possible. There is no updated smart products in my home.

  24. Our house is Average! We really love our Nest products but have lots still to do to make our house smarter – I’d love to start with the D-Link Water Sensor.

  33. Our house is slow..The Ring Doorbell would be a nice security feature or I’d love to try the Philips Hue A19 personal wireless light bulb starter kit

  35. We are considering purchasing the Ring Home Security Kit with HD Video Doorbell & 2 Wire Free Stickup Cameras

  40. The two things we want to add first are a smart thermostat like the Nest, and smart locks on both our doors. In particular, the August Smart Lock 2

  49. I still have to first change the hot water tank and furnace before many of the items will work, but I could definitely use the Night Owl Security system without having to upgrade everything else. The Wired 32-Channel 2TB DVR Security System with 24 Bullet 700 TVL Cameras, would be an amazing win.

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