Methods and systems of an on-board diagnostics pass-through dongle

A computerized method useful for implementing a location awareness vehicle coupled with an on-board diagnostics (OBD) pass-through dongle comprising

• providing a plurality of wireless personal area network (WPAN) beacons, wherein the plurality of the WPAN beacons transmits a low-energy WPAN signal;
• pre-mapping a plurality of subareas in an area with a set of signal attributes for each WPAN beacon of the plurality of the WPAN beacons;
• coupling the vehicle with the OBD pass-through dongle,
• wherein the OBD pass-through dongle comprises a Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) module, and
• wherein the OBD pass-through dongle comprises a WPAN module;
• with the WPAN module, receiving one or more WPAN signals from the plurality of the WPAN beacons;
• with the LPWAN module, communicating a LPWAN signal to a on-premises server network in the area,
• wherein the LPWAN signal comprises the set of signal attributes for each WPAN beacon of the plurality of the WPAN beacons as received by the WPAN module;
• and
• with the on-premises server network in the area, matching the set of signal attributes for each WPAN beacon of the plurality of the WPAN beacons as received by the WPAN module with the pre-mapped plurality of the subareas in the area with the set of signal attributes for each WPAN beacon of the plurality of the WPAN beacons to determine a sub area of the vehicle.