Serious Energy ranks as one of the 500 fastest growing technology firms in North America over the past five years

Sunnyvale, CA—October 21, 2011—Serious Energy, Inc., the leader in energy efficiency solutions that increase the value of buildings, is one of the winners of the prestigious 2011 Technology Fast 500 Awards sponsored by consulting firm Deloitte LLP that honors rapidly growing companies in high tech.

We’ve begun to think of smart buildings as having integrated design with synched and automated systems that are managed for maximized energy efficiency and occupant comfort. Smart buildings -- dynamic, responsive, connected -- stand in stark contrast to the mute, immutable hunks of steel and sheetrock that most buildings still are. In this way, smart buildings are more closely aligned with our smart consumer electronic gadgets and the rest of our hyper-connected lives. They are even taking up residence in the Internet of Things. However, University of Illinois researchers are pushing this level of building intelligence in an entirely new direction: Buildings as living organisms.