ISO 37155-1:2020 PDF

Overview

ISO 37155-1:2020 provides a framework for integration and operation of smart community infrastructures, focusing on interactions across multiple infrastructures, between infrastructures and stakeholders, and with the external environment. It is a set of recommended processes and methodologies to identify and manage interaction-related opportunities and challenges throughout the life cycle of smart community infrastructure - from initiation and design through construction, operation, redevelopment and decommissioning. This document defines a management case (not a full management system) to help ensure consistency when treating infrastructures as a system of systems in both greenfield developments and existing urban areas.

Key topics and technical requirements

• Interaction layers: clarifies smart community infrastructure at system, infrastructure and sub-infrastructure layers to support integration planning.
• Life cycle approach: addresses phases such as initiation (concept), design (concept → tender → implementation design), construction & validation (manufacturing, testing, overall assessment), operation & maintenance, redevelopment/rehabilitation, and decommissioning.
• Interaction management process: outlines steps for identification of interactions, addressing them, clarifying responsibilities, and validating measures and countermeasures.
• Verification and validation guidance: provides phase-specific recommendations for verification, validation and assignment of responsibilities to stakeholders and owners.
• Stakeholder and environment interactions: considers interdependencies between infrastructures, interactions with community stakeholders, and impacts from the external environment (technological and environmental change).
• Risk/opportunity focus: emphasizes recognizing both opportunities (e.g., service synergies) and challenges (e.g., cascading failures) arising from interactions.

Applications

ISO 37155-1 is practical for:

• Urban planners and community authorities planning integrated smart community solutions.
• Investors and lenders assessing greenfield or large redevelopment projects where multiple infrastructures are deployed concurrently.
• Developers, infrastructure owners and operators coordinating interoperable systems and lifecycle planning.
• Service providers and systems integrators managing cross-infrastructure interfaces, verification and validation.
• Cities managing existing urban areas who need to account for growing interdependencies across energy, transport, water, communications and other infrastructures.

Practical uses include system-level requirements capture, lifecycle interaction risk assessment, defining verification/validation steps for integrated deployments, and clarifying roles and responsibilities for multi-party projects.

Related standards

ISO 37155-1 complements sector-specific infrastructure standards and follows ISO/IEC directives. It does not replace technical standards for individual infrastructure types but provides a cross-cutting framework for integration, operation, and life cycle management of smart community infrastructures.