I am currently building a multi-remote that will cater for all parts of my room .what I am not quite sure of is the materials to use that will utter the circurt to the bulb and limit the power flow and thus dimming the lights and brightening them when I send the signals from the remote
Insteon, UPB and X-10 are communications technologies. X-10 is a bit dated. UPB is a very interesting technology generally requiring a UPB to Ethernet/PC interface to set up.
UPB combines power line communications and RF making it pretty robust. X-10 is one-way only. You have no way to interrogate a module's state.