The management of assets in smart cities, particularly 3D assets, poses significant challenges due to their dynamic nature and the need for regular maintenance. Traditional approaches to asset management struggle to keep up with the evolving nature of smart city assets, hindering efficient planning, maintenance, and optimisation. To address these issues, this paper explores the integration of versioning and asset lifecycle management as a potential solution for effectively managing smart city assets. Versioning provides a means of tracking changes, maintaining documentation, and ensuring traceability and compliance. Its temporal information supports decision making, optimal planning, and resource allocation while enabling collaborative work among stakeholders. This study presents a conceptual framework for integrating versioning and asset lifecycle management in smart city 3D asset management processes, offering practical insights and guidance. By combining versioning with asset lifecycle management, smart cities can increase asset longevity, reduce downtime, enhance operational efficiency, and optimise smart city management processes. The ultimate goal is to enhance the efficiency, sustainability, and decision-making processes of smart city 3D asset management. This, in turn, leads to optimised urban planning, improved resource allocation, and improved performance of smart city infrastructure. With the increasing importance of smart cities and the critical role of 3D assets in urban planning and decision making, the integration of versioning and asset lifecycle management offers promising opportunities to achieve resilient and sustainable smart city infrastructure in the digital age. Nevertheless, there is a lot of complexity to be considered before implementing the proposed framework for the real case study, and a set of rules needs to be enforced when managing the model.
