IEC SRD 63347-1-2025 PDF

Full title and description

IEC SRD 63347-1:2025 — Smart city use case collection and analysis — Managing public health emergencies in smart cities — Part 1: High level analysis. This Systems Reference Deliverable (SRD) collects and analyses high-level use cases and scenarios to support smart-city preparedness, response and recovery for public health emergencies, and identifies application areas, stakeholders and standards requirements relevant to an “urban immune system” approach to resilience.

Abstract

This deliverable provides a high-level analysis of how smart city capabilities can be applied to manage public health emergencies. It explains the approach used for the ‘Management of Public Health Emergencies in Smart Cities’ use-case collection, gives an overview of the topic, defines key application areas and stakeholders, and identifies where standards and guidance are needed to address overarching issues such as interoperability, data governance, privacy, security and operational coordination across city systems. The document is intended as the baseline (Part 1) in a series supporting further, more detailed parts and technical specifications.

General information

• Status: Published / Current.
• Publication date: 26 August 2025.
• Publisher: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) — SyC Smart Cities (Systems Reference Deliverable).
• ICS / categories: 03.100.70 (Management systems / smart cities); 33.040.60 (Communication on the electricity network / smart city ICT aspects).
• Edition / version: Edition 1.0 (2025).
• Number of pages: 81 pages.

Key bibliographic and publication details above are taken from the IEC webstore entry for IEC SRD 63347-1:2025 and national distributor records.

Scope

This part aims to explain how the collection and analysis of use cases for “Management of Public Health Emergencies in Smart Cities” contributes to the concept of an urban “immune system.” It provides a concise overview of public health emergency management in the smart-city context, sets out the high‑level scenarios to be considered (prevention, detection, response, recovery, and mitigation of long‑term impacts), identifies primary application areas and stakeholder groups, and maps high-level standards and guidance requirements that must be addressed in subsequent parts and technical work. The deliverable is intended to be used in conjunction with later, more detailed parts of the IEC 63347 series.

Key topics and requirements

• High-level use-case and scenario descriptions for public health emergency lifecycle stages (prevention, early detection, response, recovery).
• Identification of key stakeholders and roles (city authorities, public health agencies, emergency services, infrastructure operators, technology providers, community actors).
• Mapping of application areas where smart-city technologies support emergency management (surveillance, situational awareness, contact tracing and analytics, resource coordination, communication and public information delivery).
• Requirements for interoperability and data exchange between city systems, healthcare, and emergency services.
• Considerations for data governance, privacy, consent, ethical data use and information security during emergencies.
• Identification of gaps in existing standards and recommendations for further standardization work and follow‑up parts of the SRD series.
• High-level recommendations for integrating resilience and equity considerations into smart-city emergency planning.

Typical use and users

Primary users include smart-city programme managers, city planners, public health authorities, emergency management teams, standards developers, system integrators and technology vendors designing city-scale platforms and services. The deliverable is also useful to policymakers, researchers and international organizations seeking a harmonized view of use cases and standards needs for public-health-related smart-city deployments.

Related standards

This SRD is produced under IEC SyC Smart Cities and is part of the IEC 63347 series of deliverables addressing smart city use cases and analysis. It should be used alongside other smart-city and public-health relevant standards and guidance (national/international) addressing interoperability, data protection, IoT integration, communications and emergency management best practices; it will also inform subsequent parts in the IEC 63347 family that provide more detailed technical and normative guidance.

Keywords

smart city; public health emergency; use case collection; urban immune system; emergency management; interoperability; data governance; privacy; standards mapping; situational awareness; resilience.

FAQ

Q: What is this standard?

A: IEC SRD 63347-1:2025 is a Systems Reference Deliverable that provides a high-level collection and analysis of smart-city use cases focused on managing public health emergencies, intended to identify application areas, stakeholders and standards requirements.

Q: What does it cover?

A: It covers high-level scenarios and use cases across the public-health emergency lifecycle (prevention, detection, response, recovery), stakeholder mapping, standards and guidance requirements, and identification of gaps for further standardization work.

Q: Who typically uses it?

A: City authorities, public health agencies, emergency managers, smart-city programme teams, system integrators, technology vendors, standards bodies and policy makers use it to align technical work and procurement with common use cases and standards needs.

Q: Is it current or superseded?

A: This deliverable was published in 2025 (Edition 1.0) and is current; it is intended as a baseline (stability indicated through 2028 on the IEC record) and may be followed by further parts that provide more detailed or normative guidance.

Q: Is it part of a series?

A: Yes — it is Part 1 of the IEC SRD 63347 series (smart city use case collection and analysis). Additional parts are expected to provide deeper technical analysis, requirements and normative content for implementers and standards work.

Q: What are the key keywords?

A: Smart city, public health emergency, use case, urban immune system, interoperability, data governance, situational awareness, resilience.