# Decoding Smart Waste Bin Detector payload **URL:** \ **Category:** End Devices (Nodes)\ **Created:** [February 27, 2019, 4:28am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/decoding-smart-waste-bin-detector-payload/23291 "2019-02-27T04:28:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![arjanvanb](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/user_avatar/www.thethingsnetwork.org/arjanvanb/32/46626_2.png) [@arjanvanb](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/u/arjanvanb)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/decoding-smart-waste-bin-detector-payload/23291/3 "2019-02-27T07:23:35Z")
To help future readers find the answer: what sensor is that, and can you share the manual? Also, someone recently asked for [Rubbish/Trash Can monitoring](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/rubbish-trash-can-monitoring/23193), so please share there? And where did you find the hexadecimal encoded version? What you’re calling ASCII is not ASCII. The 4 bytes 00 00 10 34 are already shown in a hexadecimal representation. These are all the same: - base 1, binary: 00000000 00000000 00010000 00110100 - base 8, [octal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal): 0 0 22 64 - base 10, decimal: 0 0 16 52 - base 16, hexadecimal: 00 00 10 34 - [Base64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64): AAAQNA== Indeed, 30 30 30 30 31 30 33 34 is the hexadecimal representation of _the ASCII characters_ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3 and 4, but it makes no sense to do that. See Wikipedia’s [Computer number format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_number_format) and TTN’s [Working with Bytes](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/devices/bytes.html). Also, the manual might explain why 4 bits are used for (apparently) boolean (on/off) values, where a single bit would suffice. --- _[View the full topic](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/decoding-smart-waste-bin-detector-payload/23291)._