Overview
ISO/IEC 24039:2022 - Information technology - Smart city digital platform reference architecture - Data and service - defines a reference architecture for smart city digital platforms (SCDPs) with a focus on enabling and standardizing access to data and services for city-scale applications. The standard frames how digital platforms can integrate urban digital and physical infrastructure, break down sectoral silos, and support IoT, AI, cloud, big data and digital twin technologies to deliver interoperable city services.
Key Topics and Requirements
The standard covers architectural and operational concerns for SCDPs, including:
- Design principles for platform openness, scalability and interoperability.
- Reference architecture that maps components and functional layers of an SCDP.
- Technical support areas:
- Data collection, processing and storage (secure ingestion, digital representation).
- Development, testing and system operation (life‑cycle management, operating tools).
- Resource management and data governance:
- Data ownership identification, metadata management, data quality and policy.
- Data asset management: identification, catalogues, models, associations and security.
- Data intelligence: training, analytics and visualization.
- Service-oriented design:
- Service decoupling, domain models, and service extraction for reuse and modularity.
- Capability exposure and interfaces:
- Data services, data operations (authorization, circulation), data portals.
- Service integration (interaction, encapsulation) and service delivery (accessibility, evaluation).
- Collection and delivery interfaces (secure access, authentication, APIs, subscription, protocol translation).
The document also includes informative annexes (example SCDP data service reusability and elaboration with ISO/IEC 30145‑3).
Practical Applications
ISO/IEC 24039:2022 is intended to guide design, deployment and operation of platforms that:
- Integrate cross‑domain urban systems (mobility, utilities, public safety, environment).
- Provide standardized APIs, data catalogs and portals for third‑party developers and service providers.
- Support secure, governed data sharing and analytics across municipal agencies and private partners.
- Enable reuse of services and harmonized data models for smart city solutions using IoT, AI and cloud technologies.
Who should use this standard
- City IT architects and digital transformation teams
- Platform architects and solution integrators
- Vendors of smart city platforms, middleware and APIs
- Data governance officers and policy makers
- System integrators working on IoT, analytics and digital twin deployments
Related standards
Keywords: ISO/IEC 24039:2022, smart city digital platform, SCDP, reference architecture, data governance, data service, API, IoT, AI, data catalogue.