HearthwireSmart home kit decided by numbers

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Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Black smart deadbolt on a light wooden door, with touch keypad, fingerprint ring and doorbell button — A keypad smart lock with a fingerprint reader above the digits and a doorbell button below.Photo: TaurusEmerald · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

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Budget and prices

What a smart home costs per year in Canada, line by line

Hardware spread over its life, standby electricity, cloud subscriptions and GST/HST. The four lines that make up a Canadian smart home's yearly cost.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 10 min

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