ISO 37190:2025

Overview

ISO 37190:2025 provides essential guidance for the practical implementation of the ISO 37155 series, focusing on supervision at every life cycle phase of smart community infrastructures within smart cities. The document is tailored for regulatory authorities at national and community supervisory levels. It empowers authorities to systematically identify risks that may affect the operation of smart community infrastructures and to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures and specification requirements are allocated and maintained throughout each infrastructure component and phase.

Designed as a framework, ISO 37190:2025 offers clear perspectives on documenting processes, checking site activities, and ensuring accountability. It emphasizes the importance of managing the interactions between diverse smart community infrastructure systems, maintaining consistency, and verifying that measures and requirements are sustained across planning, operation, and system integration processes. This standard is not a management system but rather a set of actionable processes aimed at meeting specific supervisory objectives in smart city development.

Key Topics

• Risk Identification and Mitigation
  Offers structured methodology to identify and address risks across the life cycle of smart community infrastructures in line with the ISO 37155 series.

• Supervisory Guidance for Authorities
  Provides national and community regulatory bodies with frameworks to check compliance, assign specification requirements, and validate implementation.

• Life Cycle Phase Supervision
  Covers all life cycle stages from conceptualization, planning, and design through construction, operation, redevelopment, and decommissioning.

• Accountability and Documentation
  Advises on the use of documentation and site checks to ensure ongoing accountability and adequacy of applied measures.

• Interaction Management and Consistency
  Emphasizes the management of interactions among infrastructure components and consistency of specification requirements across the system.

• Stakeholder Facilitation
  Encourages effective communication and information sharing among a wide group of stakeholders, including citizens, service providers, regulators, investors, and infrastructure owners.

Applications

Implementing ISO 37190:2025 offers practical benefits for a broad range of smart city stakeholders:

• Regulatory Authorities:

  • Enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, development, and operation.
  • Facilitate risk-based regulatory development and collaborative supervision.
  • Assure the integration of specification requirements and risk management protocols.
  • Support regulatory oversight through every development phase.

• Investors and Lenders:

  • Make informed investment decisions based on early risk identification.
  • Monitor project progress for investment control and risk management.
  • Identify new funding opportunities by understanding project and systemic risks.

• Developers, Operators, and Owners:

  • Achieve higher efficiency and quality across smart community infrastructures.
  • Streamline project management, reduce inconsistencies, and enhance accountability.
  • Optimize operation, maintenance, and procurement processes.

• Service Providers:

  • Clarify requirements and procurement guidelines.
  • Strengthen accountability and contribute effectively to smart city objectives.

• Citizens:

  • Encourage active engagement and transparency in planning and operations.
  • Improve quality of life through more reliable, efficient infrastructure.
  • Foster public trust through demonstrable accountability and risk mitigation.

Related Standards

• ISO 37155-1:2020
  Framework for integration and operation of smart community infrastructures – Recommendations for considering opportunities and challenges from interactions through the life cycle.

• ISO 37155-2:2021
  Framework for integration and operation of smart community infrastructures – Holistic approach and strategy for development, operation, and maintenance.

• ISO/TR 37152
  Provides foundational concepts for information sharing, communication, and a holistic system-of-systems approach in smart community infrastructures.

• ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC TS 27570, and ISO/IEC 29100
  Referenced for information security, data management, and privacy considerations when supervising smart infrastructures.

ISO 37190:2025 is a key resource for smart city authorities and stakeholders striving for effective risk management and seamless life cycle supervision in smart community infrastructure projects.