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
My house is not very smart.
My poor old house is slow.
ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS
I would like to add the ring door bell
id like to add a Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation to my home!
my home is just average.
I want a Nest thermostat
my home is maybe a 4. just above average. I have smart devices, but they are under-utilized.
I would love a Nest thermostat.
My home is just an inch above average as far as how smart it is.
any of the smart thermostats like the nest would be fun and easy to use!
our home is slow.
I’d like to try the ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYSTEM
Home rating is slow
I would like to add security cameras to my home.
The first product I would invest in is the ECOBEE3 HMK ENABLE SMRT THRMSTAT W/RS.
My home is slow.
We live in a SLOW home.
I would love to install the Nest thermostat
My home is slow…I need help!
I would love to buy a smart thermostat that I could control with my smart phone.
My home is slow! Would so love to be average for once.
Looking to add a smart thermostat, nest or ecobee
slow
If I could buy one upgrade to my “smart” house, I would get the thermostat, how cool is it to warm or cool your home with smart technology!
An Arlo Pro Wireless Security System with 4 HD Cameras would be an asset
My house is slow, and needs a “smart” upgrade!
House is slow
Our house is only average, would like to add NETGEAR Arlo Pro Wireless Security system
I would like to start with a NEST Energy Monitor
I have a slow house, but would love to start with a Nest Thermostat
Slow
I found a Ring Doorbell at Best Buy. Looks cool.
My house is average 4
Mine is slow. Sad panda
I would like to add an August Bluetooth Smart Lock
Our house rating is slow
Would love to get an ecobee thermostat.
Slow
My home is slow, 1 smart bulb 🙁
My house is a 3 or slow
I’d like to add the Ring Wi-Fi Enabled Doorbell Chime to my home.
Mine is clever. Better than I was expecting.
I would love to add the NETGEAR Arlo Pro Wireless Security System with 4 HD Cameras to my home in the next year!
My home is probably a 2 on that scale. Pretty slow!
My home is as dumb as they get.. I need more smarts in my house please!!!
My home is slow. Some of the lights can be controlled remotely and there is a webcam staring outside, but nothing else can be controlled or automated.
slow
My house is very slow in the scale of how smart it is. Domestic IQ isn’t there yet
My home is just above average but not quite clever. I am making genius an evolutionary process – one adaptation at a time.
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