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
the Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera would be amazing to have.
My house is SLOW
My house is “slow”
My house is average, smart garage opener and smart lights at front door that turn on at sunset and turn off at sunrise!
I just got a Nest thermostat and would love to add more smart devices
Uh… all of the products considering how slow our home is!? I think a Smart Thermostat would be a good start, such as the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation. Thanks!
Oh my goodness… our house is slow! Embarrassingly slow!
My home is slow and we would like to add a smart thermostat to our home.
The temperature & environment controls would be a big help to this home as we are going to be hit 2 times with the carbon tax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SLOW!!! Stuck in the 70’s when it was built! Would love temperature & environment control, locks & door bells.
My heart has been yearning for a NEST thermostat since they first came out. Love them! Wish my home had one. 🙁
My home scores a big fat zero – slow – on the genius scale.
My home is slow! We could use a security camera! THANKS!
My house is slow
Smart lighting kit
I would Love to Add Nest thermostats to add with my existing Nest smoke detectors.
My House is Average
Would love to add the wifi smart thermostat.
The August Doorbell Cam would be great because we could see if it’s welcome guest or do we have to be very quiet.
My house is average
Not even a 0.00001, just like the owner.
My house is average. Would love a lock smart keyless entry
I would like to add the Hue Beyond Table Lamp for my wife.
House already at Genius but still working on it.
Our house could use a nest thermostat to “brighten” it up
Temperature and environment control
Our house is slow and needs some help
My house is slow.
I would love the August doorbell cam
My house is slow 🙁
I really like the idea of the August Smart Lock HomeKit
I would love to win the ecobee3 HomeKit-Enabled Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat as I recently moved into a new townhouse. It would definitely boost my home to that GENIUS status and I think every homeowner should have one of these!
My house is pretty average at a 3, but could be a lot better
I could use the NETGEAR Arlo Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Security System with 4 720p Cameras.
My home isn’t very smart, it’s slow 🙁
My house is Clever.
My house is sort of clever but we need to install outdoor cameras for what we are now hunting around to buy.
We would like to upgrade to the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat sometime in the next year. We got one for my sis-in-law for a house warming gift and it’s very cool.
My house is a dumb dumb, it scored a 1.
I’d like to upgrade my thermostat to a Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation unit.
My house scores a big fat 0, it’s dumber than a sack of hammers.
I would love to add the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation to my home
My house is around a 2, pretty slow.
I’d love a Ring WFi 720p Video Doorbell Pro – since I live alone, it’d be nice to see who comes to my door before I open it!
I would love to add a Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat to my home within the next year. I think it would be the most useful smart device for us.
My apartment is definitely slow! But I live in rural Labrador, so I consider myself lucky to have Internet and cable. 🙂
As it turns out my household is slow. Very very slow.
I would love the add Phillips Hue or smart locks to start the house getting into the smart century lol.
My house is slow.
My house is average
I would also like more Phillips Hue lights.
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