The present invention relates to telematics on-board units for vehicles including data collection means for collecting vehicle usage data, data transmission means for transmitting collected vehicle usage data and/or analyzed vehicle usage data derived therefrom, to a telematics service platform and driver identification means for identifying a driver using the vehicle and providing a driver identification. In accordance with the present invention, the driver identification means includes a plurality of peripheral elements of different types for entering, detecting and/or receiving different identification data for determining the driver identification on the basis of different identification features, the different peripherals being integrated in a common component to be installed in the vehicle's passenger compartment, thereby simplifying the installation of the device in the vehicle and reducing time and costs of first installation and reducing the number of possible mistakes done during the installation wh