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
NEST thermostat
Nest camera
My home is below average
My house is Average
Rachio Sprinklers seems really cool!
I would love to have the Yale Look Digital Door Viewer.
it is sometimes average. =)
oh my..my house is SLOW
I would love to install a smart lock – this looks like a good one
August Smart Lock HomeKit-Enabled – Dark Grey
My house is average
YALE KeY FREE LoCK PuSH BuTToN SATIN NiCKLe
My house is super slow!
August Smart Lock HomeKit-Enabled with Doorbell Cam & Keypad – Silver/Dark Grey
Uh oh…my house is slow 🙂
A Nest Thermostat
Average
Some smart switches and plugs could really come in useful in my house.
my house seems to be very slow
security cameras would be helpful with the recent break ins in the area.
ha ha my house is slow to average.
I’d love to add the August Smart Lock (HomeKit-Enabled) to our home in the next year!
My home is slow.
Slow! Uh oh!
I would like to pick up a nest thermostat
My house seems to be pretty clever
My house is slow (in my defence, it’s old and needs all sorts of renovations…)
The nest thermostat is pretty amazing. I would want to get that at Best Buy.
My house is probably a 2, maybe a 3 since the thermostat is programmable. Great prize!
A smart thermostat, especially for the upcoming winter.
Slower then slow
We really need a Nest thermostat
our home is slow for sure.
We need a Nest thermostat
Our house is slow
My house is smart. Maybe about a 7. We love our Nest.
Have been waiting for the ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYSTEM to go on sale – really really really would like it ……
My home is verrrrrrryyyyyyyy slllllllooooooowwwwwww
Indeed I scored a zero!
our house is taking the short bus!!! it is slow
I would like to check out the ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS at Best Buy
House: slow
Nest camera
My house is average
OH dear the house is slow
The item that I would like most is a smart thermostat
My house is VERY SLOW
I’d like try the nest thermostat at best buy.
SLOW SLOW SLOW… our house is definitely slow
I would love the Security Cameras for our house
Our house is slow
oh my..my house is SLOW
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