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
My home is slow smart!
My old house is SLOW.
I would love to add the “Nest Cam Wi-Fi Outdoor 1080p IP Camera” to my home!
I would like the smart security cameras
Smart security cameras
My home is slow unfortunately. Hopefully it can become Smart with these prizes!
My home is average
I would love the Night Owl security
I would love the nest cam
I would love to win a security system and alarm.
I would like to have a Nest thermostat to help reduce my energy bill.
My home is slow – needs a lot of help from Best Buy
My house is slow. It doesn’t have any of those devices.
My house was Slow
I’d like to get the Chamberlain MyQ Garage Door Sensor
Our house was average
how house is rated at 3 needs improvement have the basics got the really large dogs
My house is slow.
Our house is average and I would like to improve it’s efficiency.
I would love a Nest Smart Thermostat within the next year or so.
My house is slow but I would love to upgrade it.
My house is SMART but always looking for more gadgets!
The night owl security system from best buy would be awesome to have!!
We would love to add a security camera to our house and it’s been on our wish list for several years
My house is average but would love to upgrade to genious
Our house is between clever and smart
I would love to add the Security Camera to my home – it’s nice peace of mind knowing that the cameras are looking after your house!
My home would probably get a slow score – I only have the NEST thermometer and I LOVE IT!!!
A nest
Would really like the nest security cam system! It’s now on our wish lust for next year!
would like the smart security cameras
My home is very very slow
I sure would love to add the Nest thermostat from the many many smart home choices from awesome Best Buy 😉
I would have a HD camera security system, would give me some peace while away.
I seem to be on the slow side
Our home is just average at this point
Jeepers l didn’t think our home would score a big fat egg (0)! Guess that means we have lots of room for improvement!
My home is a 3 so average.
would like to add the wifi light switch to my house
smart security cameras and wifi outdoors
I am very interested in the Nest Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat 3rd Generation – smart and beautiful too!
I would love to install the Night Owl Security system to our home in the next year !
my home is slow ty for the chance to win some smart products and make it more clever
my house is average but would like to improve that.
smart security cameras
Our home is clever, but would love to see it upgraded to Genius ! Thanks for the chance to win !
My home has great potential (*whispers* but is rather slow).
Average
My place would orient get a one.. Not very smart…
For entry two I would probably get the nest thermostat or the garage door sensor.
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