Systems And Methods For Tool Activation And Display Cabinet Locking

A retail display case that stocks physical products, comprising:

• a power supply that provides power to the retail display case;
• an electronic lock with a state, wherein the state is selected from one or more states including:
• a locked state, in which access to the physical products is prevented;
• and
• an unlocked state, in which access to the physical products is enabled;
• a radio module configured to receive and transmit short-range wireless messages without use of wide area network communications and to control the state of the electronic lock via a control signal output by the radio module;
• wherein, when the state of the electronic lock is the locked state and the retail display case receives by the radio module an unlock message and a trusted token, the radio module is configured to:
• validate the trusted token;
• when the validation is not successful, reject the unlock message without changing the state of the electronic lock;
• and
• when the validation is successful, change the state of the electronic lock from the locked state to the unlocked state.