Aevocam Billing Plan Explained

Understanding Your Plan, Allowance, Costs, and Storage

Ingestion and storage costs are based on how many megapixels (MP) there are in each photo. Higher resolution photos cost more to ingest and store.

This is not an exhaustive list of all camera resolutions. It's just a few common ones to help give you an idea of the impact of different resolutions on your costs.

The number of photos per day that are ingested. This is mostly just to help you visualize what you're storing. Cost calculations are based on megapixels, not number of photos.

Some rules of thumb. If your camera uploads one photo every hour then use 24. If it uploads one photo every 60 seconds then use 1440 (24 * 60).

Not all photos ingested are stored. Let's say you define 3 slots in a day for each camera (eg 9am, 12pm, 3pm). But you happen to send a photo every hour from 9am to 3pm. That's 7 photos ingested each day. But only 3 are retained. In that case you'd enter (7 - 3) / 3 = 1.33 as the excess multiplier.

To be sure, these photos, though not stored, still count toward your monthly ingestion costs. But these are one-time costs, not recurring. So if your camera feeds stay the same from month to month, this cost will not change over time.

Why would you want to send extra photos? Your camera may not give you much choice, depending on its settings. But also, you may want to send at least one extra photo per slot just in case the first one does not arrive.

You can opt to retain photos forever or have them culled after a certain amount of time in order to save on storage costs. If you add more than one photo per day then you may want to retain at least one of them after culling.

If you choose to cull after some time then you can opt to cull every photo as they age out. Doing so means your storage costs no longer rise after that point. But you can opt to keep one or more photos per day. That way your storage costs will continue to rise but more slowly.

For example. You might have taken one photo every hour from 9am to 5pm every day. That's 9 photos per day. But maybe after a year you want to cull that down to only retain the 10am, the noon, and the 2pm photos. That's 3 per day.

Show or hide the "Cost curve" graph.

The cost curve shows the cost of your usage over time as a line graph. Since Aevocam's pricing is based on usage, your costs change over time as you accumulate more photos. It's also affected by the flat subscription rate and the allowance used to pay for some or sometimes all of the usage fees. You will often see this as a flat line in the early months or years followed by a sloped line upward once usage fees become greater than the allowance. That slope may change as a consequence of culling, which reduces the number of photos stored.