ISO 37190:2025

Guidance for practical implementation of ISO 37155 series for supervising at each life cycle phase of smart community infrastructures

This document provides guidance on identifying risks that can hinder the proper functioning of smart community infrastructures in smart cities, in accordance with the ISO 37155 guideline series, and on implementing mitigation measures. The guidance is particularly for regulatory authorities at both national and community supervisory levels. Authorities can check that the adoption of appropriate measures and the assignment of specification requirements in each component of the system is ensures in the life cycle of smart community infrastructure. To accomplish this, the framework and perspectives on what (documents, sites, etc.) can be used to ensure accountability for the implementation and its adequacy are presented. The framework ensures the interactions of smart community infrastructures are managed by adequate specification requirements and the adoption of adequate measures for planning and operation, as described in ISO 37155-1. Additionally, it aims for consistency between different systems of smart community infrastructures by allocating specification requirements to each component of a system and validating the allocating procedures, as described in ISO 37155-2. NOTE This document describes a management case (not a management system), i.e. specific processes that an organization follows to meet specific objectives of this document.

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General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 02-Oct-2025
• ICS: 13.020.20 - Environmental economics. Sustainability
• Technical Committee: ISO/TC 268/SC 1 - Smart community infrastructures
• Drafting Committee: ISO/TC 268/SC 1 - Smart community infrastructures
• Current Stage: 6060 - International Standard published
• Start Date: 03-Oct-2025
• Due Date: 01-Jun-2026
• Completion Date: 03-Oct-2025

Relations

• Consolidated By: ISO 4210-8:2023 - Cycles - Safety requirements for bicycles - Part 8: Pedal and drive system test methods
• Effective Date: 06-Mar-2023

Overview

ISO 37190:2025 - Guidance for practical implementation of the ISO 37155 series - provides regulatory-focused guidance for identifying risks that can impede the functioning of smart community infrastructures and for implementing mitigation measures across each life cycle phase. Designed primarily for national and community supervisory authorities, the document sets out a framework to ensure that specification requirements are allocated, verified and validated for each system component, and that accountability for planning, operation and integration is demonstrable. ISO 37190 describes a management case (specific processes to meet objectives), not a full management system.

Key Topics

• Life cycle supervision: Guidance mapped to phases such as concept, planning, design, tendering, construction, testing/validation, operation and maintenance, redevelopment, and decommissioning.
• Risk identification and mitigation: Practical measures regulators can use to identify hazards, assess impacts on interoperability and continuity, and require countermeasures.
• Allocation of specification requirements: Principles for assigning technical and operational requirements to each component within a system-of-systems architecture.
• Verification and validation: Recommended checks, tests and validation steps during individual component testing, combined-system validation, and overall assessment.
• Accountability and documentation: What documents, sites and evidence supervisors can request to ensure compliance and adequacy of implementation.
• System interactions management: Ensuring interactions among infrastructures are handled via specifications and operational measures consistent with ISO 37155-1 and ISO 37155-2.
• Stakeholder benefits: Sections outlining benefits for authorities, investors, developers, operators, service providers and citizens.

Applications

ISO 37190 is practical guidance for:

• Regulatory and supervisory authorities at national and municipal levels to review, approve and monitor smart infrastructure projects.
• Infrastructure owners and operators seeking to demonstrate compliance with supervisory expectations for life cycle risk management.
• Project developers, planners and tendering bodies to structure requirements and validation activities across procurement and construction phases.
• Investors and lenders needing assurance that specification allocation and validation procedures are in place to reduce project risk.
• Service providers and system integrators implementing interoperable, resilient smart community solutions.

Key use cases include validating system-of-systems integration, auditing life cycle documentation, specifying verification/validation requirements in tenders, and enforcing operational safeguards.

Related Standards

• ISO 37155-1 - Specification requirements for planning and operation of smart community infrastructures (interaction and countermeasures).
• ISO 37155-2 - Allocation of specification requirements and validation procedures for system components.
• ISO/TR 37152 - Background framework referenced by the ISO 37155 series.

Keywords: ISO 37190, ISO 37155, smart community infrastructures, life cycle supervision, risk identification, specification allocation, verification and validation, system of systems.

Standards Content (Sample)

International
Standard
ISO 37190
First edition
Guidance for practical
2025-10
implementation of ISO 37155
series for supervising at each life
cycle phase of smart community
infrastructures
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Benefits of applying this document . 2
4.1 General .2
4.2 General benefits . .2
4.3 Benefits for national and community authorities .2
4.4 Benefits for investors or lenders .2
4.5 Benefits for developers, operators, and infrastructure owners .2
4.6 Benefits for service providers .3
4.7 Benefits for citizens in smart communities .3
5 Understanding of the Smart Community Infrastructure Layers . 3
5.1 Smart community infrastructure system layer .3
5.2 Smart community infrastructure layer .3
5.3 Smart community sub-infrastructure layer .3
6 Life cycle phases of smart community infrastructure . 3
6.1 General .3
6.2 General process in integration and operation .4
7 Guidance for practical application of ISO 37155 series to development and maintenance
of smart community infrastructures . 4
7.1 General .4
7.2 Smart community concept (phase 1-1) .5
7.2.1 General .5
7.2.2 Smart community concept .5
7.2.3 Recommendations.5
7.3 Basic concept (phase 2-1) .5
7.3.1 General .5
7.3.2 Developing the basic concept .6
7.3.3 Recommendations for verification .6
7.4 Basic plan (phase 2-2) .6
7.4.1 General .6
7.4.2 Developing the basic plan .6
7.4.3 Recommendations for verification .6
7.5 Fundamental design (phase 2-3).7
7.5.1 General .7
7.5.2 Developing fundamental design .7
7.5.3 Recommendations for verification .7
7.6 Tendering (phase 2-4) .7
7.6.1 General .7
7.6.2 Conducting tendering . .8
7.6.3 Recommendations for verification .8
7.7 Implementation design (phase 2-5).8
7.7.1 General .8
7.7.2 Developing implementation design .8
7.7.3 Recommendations for verification .8
7.8 Manufacturing, construction and installation (phase 3-1) .9
7.8.1 General .9
7.8.2 Manufacturing, constructing and installing .9
7.8.3 Recommendations for verification .9
7.8.4 Recommendations for validation.9

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7.9 Individual and combination tests and validation (phase 3-2) .9
7.9.1 General .9
7.9.2 Conducting individual and combination tests and validation .10
7.9.3 Recommendations for verification .10
7.9.4 Recommendations for validation.10
7.10 Overall assessment and validation (phase 3-3) .10
7.10.1 General .10
7.10.2 Conducting overall assessment and validation .11
7.10.3 Recommendations for verification .11
7.10.4 Recommendations for validation.11
7.11 Operation and maintenance (phase 4) .11
7.11.1 General .11
7.11.2 Conducting operation and maintenance .11
7.11.3 Recommendations for verification . 12
7.12 Redevelopment and rehabilitation (phase 5). 12
7.12.1 General . 12
7.12.2 Conducting redevelopment or rehabilitation, or both . 12
7.12.3 Recommendations for verification and validation. 12
7.13 Decommissioning (phase 6) . 12
7.13.1 General . 12
7.13.2 Conducting redevelopment or rehabilitation, or both . 13
7.13.3 Recommendations for verification . 13
Bibliography . 14

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Foreword
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Introduction
In the foreseeable future, urban density is likely to increase, resulting in further urbanization complexity.
From this perspective, a “smart community” approach is an important concept to address the urban
challenges by integrating different forms of infrastructures in a rational and efficient manner.
An important aspect of a smart community is integrating infrastructures as “a system of systems”. A
system of systems (SoS) is the collection of multiple, independent systems in context as part of a larger,
more complex system. A system is a group of interacting, interrelated and interdependent components that
form a complex and unified whole. In addition to that, smart community has various stakeholders including
users, and each smart community infrastructure has an extended scope lifecycle (See Figure 1). A major
benefit of a system of systems is that the sector specific performance of all infrastructures can be validated
with regard to their contribution to the overall goals of a community. As a result of this validation, these
goals can be adapted and improvement targets for each infrastructure can be derived. Thus, an intended
concept of a smart community being validated and updated through its lifecycle concerning the integration
and operation of smart community infrastructures is realized efficiently at all times.
There are three major issues in developing and operating smart community infrastructures (see Figure 2):
Element (A): allocation of specification requirements to each component of a system and validation of the
allocating procedures;
Element (B): specification requirements associated with interaction and adoption of countermeasures into
planning and operation;
Element (C): process to facilitate information sharing and communication among stakeholders.
To provide guidelines for the common framework comprised of those three elements that ISO/TR 37152
identifies, the ISO 37155 series has been developed. The series is composed of two documents, ISO 37155-1
and ISO 37155-2. ISO 37155-1 is about the element (B), providing specification requirements to manage
interactions and to adopt adequate measures into planning and operation whereas ISO 37155-2 is focusing
on the element (A), providing guidelines for specification to ensure consistency of smart community
infrastructure and to adopt adequate measures into planning and operation. The element (C), information
sharing and communication among stakeholders, is described in both documents.
More and more smart cities are being built and planned across the globe. This has increased the demand
to utilize existing guidelines and platforms to develop and operate smart cities and smart community
infrastructures efficiently and practically. Experts and government officials responsible for developing
smart cities and infrastructures, particularly in developing countries, have argued the benefits of guidelines
which enable utilizing ISO/TR 37152 and the ISO 37155 series in a practical manner.

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NOTE The infrastructures, stakeholders and lifecycle phases pictured in this figure are only some of the examples.
Other infrastructure, such as urban agricultural system, can also be included.
Figure 1 — Characteristics of smart community infrastructure

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Figure 2 — Three elements of the framework

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International Standard ISO 37190:2025(en)
Guidance for practical implementation of ISO 37155 series
for supervising at each life cycle phase of smart community
infrastructures
1 Scope
This document provides guidance on identifying risks that can hinder the proper functioning of smart
community infrastructures in smart cities, in accordance with the ISO 37155 guideline series, and on
implementing mitigation measures. The guidance is particularly for regulatory authorities at both national
and community supervisory levels.
Authorities can check that the adoption of appropriate measures and the assignment of specification
requirements in each component of the system is ensures in the life cycle of smart community infrastructure.
To accomplish this, the framework and perspectives on what (documents, sites, etc.) can be used to ensure
accountability for the implementation and its adequacy are presented.
The framework ensures the interactions of smart community infrastructures are managed by adequate
specification requirements and the adoption of adequate measures for planning and operation, as described
in ISO 37155-1. Additionally, it aims for consistency between different systems of smart community
infrastructures by allocating specification requirements to each component of a system and validating the
allocating procedures, as described in ISO 37155-2.
NOTE This document describes a management case (not a management system), i.e. specific processes that an
organization follows to meet specific objectives of this document.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes
requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 37155-1:2020, Framework for integration and operation of smart community infrastructures — Part
1: Recommendations for considering opportunities and challenges from interactions in smart community
infrastructures from relevant aspects through the life cycle
ISO 37155-2:2021, Framework for integration and operation of smart community infrastructures — Part
2: Holistic approach and the strategy for development, operation and maintenance of smart community
infrastructures
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 37155-1 and ISO 37155-2 apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https:// www .electropedia .org/

4 Benefits of applying this document
4.1 General
This clause describes the main benefits that each stakeholder has through applying this document.
4.2 General benefits
Application of this document helps stakeholders to:
a) identify and determine required systems, and achieve higher efficiency in planning, development,
operation, and monitoring of smart cities and smart community infrastructures;
b) promote deeper understanding and practical application of facilitating the allocation and understanding
of responsibility related to the issues and activities among stakeholders identified in the ISO 37155 series;
c) achieve efficient allocation and optimization of resources such as capital, energy, material, and human
resources;
d) reduce CO2 emission and environmental load, as result of efficient allocation and optimization of energy
and material resources.
4.3 Benefits for national and community authorities
Regulators such as national and community authorities are the main target of this document. Application of
this document helps stakeholders to:
a) achieve more practicality and efficiency in planning, developing, and operating smart cities and smart
community infrastructures utilizing ISO 37155 series and related document;
b) facilitate identifying opportunities for synergies and identifying risks associated with interactions
between multiple smart community infrastructures in smart city;
c) facilitate developing regulations, which are related to infrastructure and community activities, by
utilizing risk information, for ensuring safety and security of the community;
d) utilize collaborative regulation capacity to facilitate regulatory development.
4.4 Benefits for investors or lenders
Application of this document helps stakeholders to:
a) decide to invest/loan based on identification of risks at earlier point;
b) monitor project status to watch for investment/loan control;
c) identify new investment opportunities.
4.5 Benefits for developers, operators, and infrastructure owners
Application of this document helps stakeholders to:
a) achieve high efficiency and quality of the entire smart community infrastructures;
b) facilitate effective procurement management and efficient project management by preventing reworks
due to inconsistency or mismatches among components;
c) facilitate accountability for conformity with objectives and needs for infrastructure development;
d) achieve efficient operation and maintenance of smart community infrastructures;

e) provide effective risk management from perceived hazards and disruptions;
f) cooperate in infrastructure development.
4.6 Benefits for service providers
Application of this document helps stakeholders to:
a) clarify system requirements for the service providers;
b) provide a means for efficient project management as well as accomplishing accountability for how
much the system contributes to meeting the objectives and needs for smart community infrastructures
development;
c) utilize collaborative and integrated services to enhance smart community’s efficiency.
4.7 Benefits for citizens in smart communities
Application of this document will help citizens to:
a) facilitate active engagement as an important stakeholder in planning and operating processes through,
e.g. data sharing and user data acquisition;
b) achieve cost effective smart community infrastructure financially acceptable for the users;
c) enhance the quality of life due to more effective and reliable infrastructure performance as a whole;
d) avoid disruptions to citizens’ lives when constructing smart community infrastructure, which can be
achieved by optimizing construction plans in which interactions between the construction and citizens
are considered;
e) utilize citizen investment in infrastructure development.
5 Understanding of the Smart Community Infrastructure Layers
5.1 Smart community infrastructure system layer
For the smart community infrastructure system layer, users should refer to ISO 37155-1:2020, 4.1.
5.2 Smart community infrastructure layer
For the smart community infrastructure layer, users should refer to ISO 37155-1:2020, 4.2.
5.3 Smart community sub-infrastructure layer
For the community sub-infrastructure layer, users should refer to ISO 37155-1:2020, 4.3.
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