Smart city standards lay the groundwork for building resilient, sustainable, and technologically advanced urban areas that enhance citizens' quality of life while minimizing environmental impact. ISO standards enable seamless integration between systems, accelerate deployment, instill confidence in smart city solutions entering the market, prevent vendor lock-in, and facilitate scalability.

Top standards

Sustainable cities and communities — Disaster risk finance — Principles and general requirements for financing ex-ante investment in risk reduction

Sustainable development in communities — Management system for sustainable development — Requirements with guidance for use

Sustainable cities and communities — Indicators for smart cities

Sustainable cities and communities — Indicators for city services and quality of life

Sustainable cities and communities — Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities

Sustainable cities and communities — Environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators for cities

Smart community infrastructures — Operation and maintenance of utility tunnels

Insights

Smart city mobility: Transforming the future of urban transportation

What if cities could move smarter? What if technology could transform how we travel, making urban environments cleaner, more efficient and connected? Across the globe, smart city mobility initiatives are turning these possibilities into reality.

Sustainable development for a changing planet

Cities worldwide are in the race to adapt to a changing climate. Everywhere, soaring temperatures fuelled by human-made greenhouse gas emissions are disrupting the delicate balance of our climate systems.

Smart farming: the transformative potential of data-driven agriculture

Smart farming and precision agriculture leverage technologies like agricultural drones, robotics, IoT sensors, GPS and farm management information systems to improve production efficiency.