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
I would like the Nanoleaf Aurora
My house is clever
I’d like to get some of those smart lighting products.
I would like to add a Ring Wi-Fi Video Doorbell Pro – Bilingual to my home.
Sadly, my home is slow :(/
My home is average so this prize would make my home a genius!
Our house is slow! I think we need a Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat!!
I would like to add the Nest Cam outdoor security camera
My house is pretty smart
I would love to add a Nest Cam from Best Buy for our home!!
Our home is a Genius!!
OK my house is slow!
Hope I win so I can speed it up!
Smart Thermostats would be my first choice, thanks!
My home is slow 🙁
My house is average. I’d like to add nest cameras to my house.
What I would benefit most from is the ARLO 4-camera kit.
My house is a real GENIUS, if not more. The lighting is all based on Insteon products. My three security cameras are basic, no-frill D-Link. My security system is an ELK M1G from elkproducts and doubles as an automation system. My two door locks are made by MiLock. I have an Insteon thermostat upstairs and a RCS thermostat downstairs. My sprinklers and two garage doors are remotely controlled through my automation system and ISY-94. Not to mention my smoke and CO2 detectors.
August Doorbell Cam
My home is currently rated slow.
Nest Cam Outdoor Security Camera
It is slow
August Smart Lock 2
Average
Our home is slow.
We like to add a security camera system to our home.
I would like to add the Arlo Smart Home 2 HD Camera security system to my home.
My home is average
With this product a 4 . Night Owl Wired 8 Channel 1TB Security System with 4 1080p Bullet Cameras – Black/White
maybe a 1.
I would like to add the Netatmo Healthy Home Coach to my home.
I scored “slow” on the scale.
Would love to add the Nest Cam Wi-Fi Outdoor 1080p IP Camera to my home.
I would like to add ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS to my house
My house is SLOW!
I would love to add the August Smart Lock HomeKit from Best Buy to my home
My home’s domestic IQ is below SLOW!
My home rated a 2. I’d really like to add a smart thermostat.
I would love to add the Nanoleaf Aurora.
I would like to have this : ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS
My house is so slow!
According to the scale, my home is “clever.”
Another awesome give away..Fingers crossed..It is smart..And i so would love to have the ARLO SMART HOME 2 HD CAMERA SECURITY SYS..Thanks for the chance.
Would be an upgrade to have this for sure. Night Owl Wired 8 Channel 1TB Security System with 4 1080p Bullet Cameras – Black/White
Maybe a 1.
My house is average ! I would love to add Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation …..to my home !
Average home
Digital doorbell coming soon
My house is average and I would like to add lights and switches as well as security camera.
My home rated average.
One product that I would like to add to my home is the Nest Cam Wi-Fi Outdoor 1080p IP Camera.
Nest home thermostat would be my first pick.
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