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 slow.
Home is AVERAGE
A Honeywell Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat would be in the cards
Nest thermostat would be a great addition
my house is very SLOW
August Smart Lock 2 – Silver – HomeKit edition would be a great upgrade and a purchase that would make sense to buy making it easier to have a WOM referral.
So slow both the turtle and the hare would beat it in a contest
I would like to try the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat. I could pre-heat a room from anywhere!
My apartment is a 0 – Slow! If only there was an option lower than slow, that would be how smart my apartment is.
I would actually love a Nest Thermostat. It would be nice to be able to control the temperature in a room without having to get up and push the buttons myself.
House is average, I think some new security lights are in order for sure!!
My house is beyond SLOW.
My house is beyond SLOW.
I can’t tell if this is posting…I’ve tried searching to see.
I would love to add a ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA to my home this year
I would love to add a ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA to my home this year.
My house is beyond SLOW
SLOW
Would like an indoor security camera
Night Owl Wired 8 Channel 1TB Security System with 4 1080p Bullet Cameras – Black/White would help
SLow, no electronics to spy or keep an eye.
Every incremental step helps for sure. This is a start August Doorbell Cam – Dark Gray
It’s a slow house
Actually need the works to become genius but this may be a good start.ARLO SMART HOME 4 HD CAMERA
slow
security camera – can never have too many
Definitely need to make smarter.Perhaps this would be good Night Owl Wired 8-Channel 1TB DVR Security System with 4 Bullet 720p Cameras – Black
person home slow, building is clever
I would still like to have the Chamberlain Garage Door Openers from Best Buy.
Our home registered as an 8- between smart and genius.
Toucan Smart Surveillance
S..L..O..W..
AUGUST LOCK
SLOW
I would like a door bell cam
We are doing pretty good a 7.5
Love anything to do with Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem. Would like to add a wireless camera security system.
Our house is at a 3, soon to be a 5. Love our Hue lights and august lock. Looking forward to adding the Lutron Caseta lights and one day a Ecobee 3 Thermostat.
Ring WiFi 720p Video Doorbell – Venetian Bronze would be a nice addition to home smarts and secutity
SLOW HOUSEHOLD FOR SURE.
I would be interested in the Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera
House is Slow
There are a lot of interesting and neat ideas here to make your house a home.
I like the ring pro video doorbell
Average
Unfortunately, our house is just ‘average’…would love to upgrade it to GENIUS status with August Doorbell Cam – Dark Gray!
My house is old and slow not upto date
My home is slow!!!
Doorbell and locks would be nice. My Doorbell hasn’t worked in 3 years.
My home is Slow! I would like to get some security lights or system!
My house is so slow … so very slow.
To think there has been a boatload of break-ins recently as well!
I like the ARLO wireless cameras!
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/ring-ring-wifi-720p-video-doorbell-satin-nickel-88rg000fc200/10389743.aspx?path=0b1f5a2263e3f3d5afad6833999eb289en02 This looks cool and would help when I feel like playing Not Home!
I don’t think my other comments went thru so I will try again. My house is slow, lots of cool ideas here!
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