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title: "Calculating the NavVis Storage and Processing Units "
slug: "calculating-the-storage-and-processing-units"
tags: ["Calculating Storage", "Cloud Storage", "NavVis IVION Processing", "Processing credits", "Processing units"]
updated: 2026-05-13T16:09:33Z
published: 2026-05-13T16:09:33Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Calculating the Storage and Processing Units

This section describes how Cloud Storage and Processing Units are calculated.

## Calculating the cloud storage

**Cloud Storage (GBs):** NavVis IVION Processing and NavVis IVION Processing Enterprise provides you with a specific amount of cloud storage space. The storage consumption is calculated based on all Recorded datasets that you upload to your NavVis IVION Site. There is no minimum dataset size required for processing data on NavVis IVION. Additionally every file that you can download after data processing is also calculated in the space, such as; *panoramic images*,*Point cloud*(*.ply,*.e57 with and without embedded pano),*quality map*, and *log files*.

## Calculating the processing units

**Processing Units:**These units are calculated based not only on standard post-processing usage, but also on the advanced features and functions such as Person Blurring. Successful reprocessing of Datasets is also counted against the balance while failed processing tasks are not counted. The processing units are shared between different devices belonging to the same account and they are non-refundable.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:**The storage metric in data processing is used across all instances, this means that if you have multiple instances, they will all be consuming the same storage

## Frequently Asked Questions

Q: [How is billed sqm (square meters) calculated in NavVis IVION Processing?](/v1/docs/how-is-billed-sqm-calculated-in-navvis-ivion-processing)

A: Billed sqm is calculated within a 10 m range of the mapping trajectory. Within a single dataset, overlapping areas are only counted once.

Q: [Why does the storage capacity on the Instance subscription not match NavVis IVION processing storage?](/v1/docs/difference-between-instance-and-cloud-storage)

A: Processing storage represents the storage size of all the datasets uploaded and processed in NavVis IVION Processing. It is different from the storage size of your instance.

Q: [When are processing units counted against the budget?](/v1/docs/when-are-processing-units-counted-against-the-budget)

A: Processing that FINISHED is counted against the budget. Processing that FAILED or CANCELED is not counted against the budget.

Q: [How is the dataset file size calculated in NavVis IVION processing?](/v1/docs/how-is-the-dataset-file-size-calculated-in-ivion-processing)

A: NavVis IVION Processing use a base 10 calculation to calculate file size.

Functionality that allows processing of data recorded by NavVis devices. Processing recorded datasets is necessary to be able to use the data in an application like NavVis IVION.

Aggregate of data recorded during mapping with a NavVis mapping device. The data needs to be processed to be consumable by applications like NavVis IVION.

Site refers to a complex of one or more buildings displayed in a NavVis IVION instance. For example, the Munich Airport would be one site. An instance can contain multiple sites. Each site consists of one or more datasets.

A three-dimensional representation of an environment, made up of many points. A point is defined by x, y and z coordinates, and it may or may not contain RGB, an intensity value, and normals.

A dataset is a piece of a site, the result of a continuous recording with a NavVis mapping device or the result of an imported point cloud. Datasets can contain panoramic images and point clouds.