A
system (1) for aiding
visually impaired or blind individuals in perceiving their surroundings, and comprising a central device (2) comprising a
transmitter /
receiver (207), a processor (211) and a feedback unit (208, 209), and a
peripheral device (3) comprising an ID
memory chip (308). The central device (2) is configured to: by the
transmitter /
receiver (207), receive and transmit data signals to and from the one or more
peripheral devices (3), by the processor (211), receive input through one or more of tactile input units, acoustic input units and
gesture recognition input units provided on one or more of the central device (2) itself and the one or more
peripheral devices (3), upon connection to a peripheral device (3), detecting the ID
memory chip (308) of the peripheral device (3) reading data contained in the ID
memory chip (308) of the peripheral device (3), and control the one or more peripheral devices (3) to perform at least one action, and by the feedback unit (208, 209), provide at least one of audible, visual and tactile feedback in dependence of the action performed by the one or more peripheral devices (3). The central device (2) further comprises a connection element (203) configured for physical connection to a complementary connection element (303) provided on at least one of the one or more peripheral devices (3) such as to enable data transfer between the central device (2) and the peripheral device (3), and the connection element (203) of the central device (2) is configured to support communication with any 20 combination of SPI, I2C, I2S audio,
Pulse Wave Modulation and GPIO control operations in isolation or in parallel.