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The goal of this project was to design and build a prototype model of a 3 room house that is equipped with an automation and security system. This system can provide services like automated lights and also notifications about alarms on your smartphone device through an android app. It works using two prototyping platforms, an Arduino Mega and an Arduino Yun. The first one uses an ATmega2560 chip from Atmel which provides plenty I/O ports that we need to connect all the needed sensors, and the second prototyping board, the Arduino Yun, uses an ATmega32U4 chip from Atmel, which has built in Wi-Fi capabilities that we need to send data over the internet to the android app, and has a second chip that runs Linux which we can use to process big amounts of data if needed in future system upgrades. For this project we used a variety of sensors like temperature sensors, motion detectors, gas leak sensor, ultrasonic sensors, and other devices like servo motors, LEDs, Fans, a 4x4 keypad, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and an RFID module. To conclude all this, the system is available to be monitored remotely through an android app. The user is able to check the temperatures throughout the house, receive alarm notifications and also check the Mode that the automation is currently working on; and last but not least the user is able to open the front door as a demonstration of the capability to upgrade the system to send commands from the Android app to the home automation like for e.g. set the house temperature for the air-condition.