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
How smart is your home contest rules and regulations
Table of Contents
Our home is sooooo…..slow!
I would like the August Smart Lock 2
My house is slow
Slow
I would love to have a ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS!
My home is on he slow side.
My home is slow, I need to change it
I’ve been wanting smart lighting for a few years now and I have my eye on the Philips Hue A19 Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit.
We are slow to average in our home.
My house is slow 🙁
We are sadly slow to average in our household.
I would like the ECOBEE3 HMK ENABLE SMRT THRMSTAT W/RS for my house
My home is definitely slow.
I would love the ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS
My home is slow!
Security Camera
My house is slow. 🙁
my house is slow but would also like to make it faster
I would like to add a NestCam and Nest Thermostat for sure as well as a SkyLink to our house.
Our house is SLOW… we currently do not have any ‘Smart’ features (yet) but I really want to add a NestCam and Nest Thermostat as well as a SkyLink for sure.
would like too add AXIS P5635-E Network Camera to my home
it’s very sad.
my house is in the dark ages still!
I would very much appreciate the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat.
My place is very old so it is a bit slow. It needs a bit of help.
My house is slow! Would love the Nest Thermostat. Thanks for the chance.
I’ve been meaning to get the Nest Thermostat.
My house is definitely slow!
Would love to get the Nest Thermostat for my home.
My house is slow.
I would like to add the NEST Thermostat to my home
My house is Slow 🙁
My house is slow. I’d like to install security cameras.
My favourite product is the Nest Protect Wi-Fi Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Alarm
would like to add some security so the NETGEAR Arlo Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Security System with 4 720p
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/arlo-netgear-arlo-wireless-indoor-outdoor-security-system-with-4-720p-cameras-white-only-at-best-buy-vms3430-100pas/10381650.aspx
My home is average.
gonna say its clever, have the nest thermostat, wifi garage opener and programable lights.
My house is very slow. I’d like to start with the nest thermostat
It looks like we are currently between slow and average
It would be awesome to have a ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS for my home. I would really feel secure with that in place 🙂
My home is slow
Lutron Caseta Smart Light Switch Starter Kit (P-BDG-PKG2W-C) would be a great add to our house. I currently have a score of 2
My house is slow…
A security system would make a huge difference in my home.
My home is SLOW!
I would like to have a ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS
my house is slow
My house is clever right now… but I would like it to be genius! I would like to add into our mix a Nest Cam next
Not very smart at all
I like the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation.
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