It’s looking like this will truly be the year of the connected home. We’ve been hearing this for years, of course, at least a decade by my count back when Bill Gates was the Microsoft keynoter at the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. At this year’s CES – set to open Tuesday – the gauntlet will be tossed out first by Samsung, which is set to announce a system that will link everything from home air conditioning to lights and security and work with its tablets, smartphones and the Samsung Gear watch, Rival LG is set to demo a system called HomeChat that controls appliances and househi=old gadgets…