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
I ranked clever – I saw Yale Key Free Smart Locks on the Best Buy site.
I ranked clever – I saw the Mipaw Playbulb rainbow A19 Smart LED Light Bulb in Best Buy online.
For my second submission, I would love to get a August Smart Lock HomeKit-Enabled. It’s on my wishlist
The first smart home product I would like to add is the August Smart Lock although, to be honest, there are several others that I’d like too. It was so hard to pick just one.
I am average even though I just did some renovations on the homestead I have some Smart LED lighting but I don’t have the controller to go with it. Good thing I have a WiFi programmable thermostat otherwise I’d be a zero.
It seems my house isn’t very smart. It’s slow in fact, a level I didn’t expect.
I would love to have the Chamberlain MyQ Garage Door Sensor to makke my home more ‘smart.’
My home ranks around average (4) as far as how ‘smart’ it is.
Home is definitely on the slow end.
So very very slow
I like the nest cam outdoor security camera
I would love the Swann Video Doorbell. So convenient and ciik,
My home is very low , I dont think it is even on the scale.
My home is SLOW
love to be a genius who wouldn’t be! I am 5-6 now
My home is about average but it could use a security upgrade.
I am a 5-6 but yeah who wouldn’t want to be a genius.
Would love to set up some Smart LED light bulbs, like the Philips Hue A19!
Nest Thermostat
My home is slow.
we need a new garage door opener so the smart solution we would pick is Chamberlain MyQ Garage Door Sensor.
We are in between slow and Average
My home is slow 🙁
The Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation sounds great
I would be interested in the security system.
My house is SLOW. Very SLOW. But these products look fantastic and I’d love to have a smarter house
I would absolutely love to add the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation to my home.
I would say I rate at a 1
I would say our house is average.
average
I think I’m going to buy a Securifi Peanut Wireless Smart Plug.
Our house rates Average.
With only 1 point our home is almost as slow as a tortoise so we could certainly use these products. Thanks so much for the chance to win.
I’d love to have the NETGEAR Arlo Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Security System with 4 720p Cameras.
My home is slow but it could use an upgrade. Right now my two big dogs are my security.
I’d love to win the ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS
and I would get a NEST Thermostat!
I would give my house average at best!
I would love the ring doorbell
My home would be considered on the slow side
A nest thermostat, to improve my home from a slow to a genius!
Belkin wifi light switch
My home would be considered slow.
I got a zero 🙁
I like the Nest Security Camera as a good place to start to improve the IQ of my home
I would love the Ring Home Security Kit with HD Video Doorbell & 2 Wire Free Stickup Cameras – Satin Nickel.
My house is sad dejected 0
Would like to add the Ring Wi-Fi Video Doorbell Pro next year.
Average home.
We are a 2 average.
My homes IQ is slow, I would like to speed it up.I would love to purchase the next thermostat in the next few years!
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