Tom McAllister cleared disused plot of land next to his recycling business The 68-year-old said he could not find legal owner in government records But lawyers said patch belongs to Lord Home, son of Alec Douglas-Home Judge ruled in Lord Home's favour after he took Mr McAllister to court

By Stephanie Linning for MailOnline

Published: 14:34 EST, 6 January 2015 | Updated: 20:40 EST, 6 January 2015

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A pensioner has lost a bitter legal battle with a multi-millionaire Tory peer over a patch of land next to his recycling yard that he has used for more than 17 years.

Tom McAllister, 68, said he decided to clear the disused plot, which was used as a dumping ground, after he was unable to find the legal owner in government records.

But lawyers insisted the land in Rigside, Lanarkshire, belonged to the estate of David Douglas-Home, son of ex-Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, and took legal action against Mr McAllister.

Tom McAllister, right, said he decided to clear the disused plot, which was used as a dumping ground, after he was unable to find the legal owner in government records. Lawyers said it belonged to Lord Home (left)

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SAN JOSE, Calif. Someday the smart home may be the norm, but today it still a somewhat pricey set of proprietary products, slowly opening up to work with industry standards.

That's the view I took away from an interview with Matthew Swatsky, a computer engineer turned product manager for Lutron's smart home products. The company has been wiring homes since the 1980s. In the 1990s, it rolled out Clear Connect, its own wireless technology now in its fifth generation.

"We're in the early stages of the connected home," said Swatsky, who is attending CES 2015 this week. "In the early 90s, custom cabinets were an upgrade. Now they are standard. The connected home may follow that trend."

Before we get there, AV and security products need to work better with the kind of lighting, motorized shades and HVAC controls Lutron makes, and everybody has to interoperate with everyone else.

Lutron has been taking its own small steps in that direction. Its proprietary 433MHz wireless systems now work with a WiFi thermostat from Honeywell, and Lutron recently agreed to support the Google Nest thermostat.

Matthew Swatsky shows some of Lutron's Caseta Wireless gadgets.

The company already ships Android and iOS apps for its network that goes under the Caseta Wireless brand. Apple demoed its app running on the Apple Watch when it was announced last year. "All the technology in that watch was not available five years ago," Swatsky said. "Mobile devices make home controls more accessible."

Lutron has 15 partners in its Caseta Wireless ecosystem, including Logitech, and it is reaching out for more. This year, it will embrace ZigBee in a remote control for smart LED lights.

Today's up-and-coming networks -- Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee -- weren't ready to plug into the smart home when Lutron started work on its wireless technology nearly 20 years ago. But today the private company that sells to both consumer and contractors, which need to embrace the rising tide of open standards to continue to thrive.

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Joining Honeywell's Lyric line is a home security suite of sensors that play nice with other home automation tools.

Honeywell doesn't want to be left behind. It's been making iconic thermostats and other household tools since 1885, but the dawn of the digital home means the well-known firm has to embrace modern (and connected) gadgets.

The company could have been supplanted by the Google-owned Nest Labs and its Nest Learning Thermostat. But Honeywell responded last year with a smart stat of its own, called Lyric. Like the Nest, it learns, and can be controlled by a smartphone. Now, as multiple companies join the home automation/security train, Honeywell is expanding the Lyric line to include home security.

Lyric's new products will include a wall-mounted LCD touch-screen control panel that responds to voice commands (tell it to turn off the heat and lock the house as you head to bed), plus cameras, motion detectors, smoke detectors, and intrusion detectors. Yes, Honeywell finally has a way to add voice control to the Lyric Thermostat (something that's not in the Nest, either).

What's perhaps most important: Honeywell says the Lyric products will integrate with other home automation hubs and systems, so it'll work with other devices not in the Lyric line. You won't be locked in to just buying Honeywell products, or eschewing them in favor of others.

However, Honeywell didn't mention who those other hubs and systems might be, or even if they Lyric sensors will use an existed technology for communication, like ZigBee, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fibut it will reportedly be compatible with Apple HomeKit, a framework for developers who want devices to talk to iOS.

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According to Honeywell, you'll soon be able to utter phrases like that to control all sorts of home security and automation products.

The previously thermostat-centric brand has just announced at CES 2015 that it's adding cameras, motion sensors, smoke detectors and more to its existing Lyric lineup -- all controllable via a physical touchscreen display, customized voice controls and the Lyric app, available for both Android and iOS users.

Honeywell's Lyric Home Security System is also supposed to work with thermostats, lights, locks and window shades so you can automate your entire house from a central hub. That means that you should be able to turn on your lights, adjust your thermostat and disarm your security system with a single command.

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The Honeywell $279 Lyric Thermostat, unveiled in 2014, relies on geofencing to keep track of your whereabouts. When it senses that you're nearing home, it's designed to switch automatically from Away mode to Home mode, and again from Home mode back to Away mode the next time you leave.

The Lyric thermostat didn't originally have voice control functionality -- unlike the company's Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat with Voice Control -- but it sounds like that's all about to change with this upcoming security system integration.

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