Intel has unveiled the Intel Retail Sensor Platform, which is aimed at retailers looking to create new technologically driven shopping experiences. The new platform is the first vertical solution built on Intel’s IoT Platform, which includes sensors, gateways, and the cloud management and analytics that tie the offering together. Intel famously failed in its mobile endeavors, but its attempts left the chip giant with a lot of expertise in designing small and power-constrained processors, which has been fed into the Atom and Quark families, the basis of Intel’s IoT portfolio. Now it is building a complete platform around those processors, including development and security stacks, devices and gateways, and a set of reference designs. The basic reference design currently consists…