Smart Home Readiness Score

How the smart home readiness score works

Most disappointing smart homes fail on the boring foundations, not the gadgets. A beautiful smart-lighting setup is useless behind flaky Wi-Fi; a smart switch can’t be installed without a neutral wire; and automations that die during every power cut quickly get abandoned. This smart home readiness assessment scores your home across the five dimensions that actually decide whether going smart will be a joy or a headache — before you spend anything.

You answer fifteen quick questions across Network (broadband, mesh Wi-Fi, router placement), Electrical (neutral wires, sockets, earthing and RCCB), Power reliability (backup for the router and hub, voltage stabiliser, outage frequency), Plan & ecosystem (chosen platform, clear priorities, a set budget) and Ownership & upkeep (own vs rent and your comfort maintaining the system). Each answer earns points; the tool converts them into a per-dimension percentage and an overall readiness score out of 100.

What your score means, and what to fix first

The result is bucketed into Not ready yet, Getting there, Ready and Fully ready, with tailored advice. Crucially, the tool doesn’t just grade you — it sorts your weakest dimensions into a “fix these first” list and links each one to the right guide, so you know exactly where to put your first rupees and hours. Sort broadband and neutral wires before buying devices, put your router and hub on backup power, and pick one ecosystem to standardise on — do that, and everything you buy afterwards simply works.