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
An August Smart Lock, especially for winter
Average house
I would take anything, just give me the win
big old 0. I need some smartness
oh no! our home is slow with a 2 point rating!
would love to add the Nest outdoor security camera to our home!
clever!
In the next year, I would like to add a Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation to my home.
My home is currently slow.
We would love the ECOBEE3 HMK ENABLE SMRT THRMSTAT W/RS for our home.
My home is average.
My home is slow.
I’d love to add the SKYLINK SKBB-2S SECURITY KIT
I would love to win the ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA
My house is slow
The Nest would be great, especially on those chilly days I want to warm up the house before I get home from work
Slow for sure…even archaic I would have to say
My home is slow, I need help!
I would want the nest cam for my house. Keep a eye on those creeps
My Home is probably slow, defiantly need to upgrade
The security cameras would greatly add value to my home smartness
My home is average smart
The Arlo Smart Home HD Camera Security System woud sure make our home smarter!
I would add the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat.
House is Average.
Our home is average Smart.
I would like the security cam, as we have had problems with roaming animals.
My house is currently slow. This prize would definitely help my family to feel safer and technology smart, as well as saving power and money.
I would like to have the D-Link wifi 720p HD IP indoor camera
We would love an ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYSTEM to add to our house!
Our house would be considered slow even though we are trying to update it slowly…
Ring Video Doorbell Pro
Slow and riding the short bus.
I would love a D-Link water sensor. We had a few issues with flooding in our previous house and I would not like to relive that!
My home is clever. We have a Nest learning thermostat and a few smart lights.
I’d really like to add a Nest thermostat so I can come home to coolness without wasting a ton of money air conditioning the house when I’m not home!
My house is straight up slow! We have nothing smart here, not even the residents.
I’d like to have Philips Hue Tap Remote Light Switch (452524)
my house is average.
I would like to have some Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostats.
My house is slow…
I would love to have the Phillips Hue lights and switches or NEST thermostat. Actually anything listed above would be cool.
My house is slow
Would love to add a NEST thermostat!
Slow
My house is average.
Ecobee 3 Smart Thermostat would be a nice addition!
Locks and doorbells would be a great add on
my house is slow
I would love to get a Nest Thermostat installed at home!
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