The invention relates to article management and provides an intelligent key cabinet which saves manpower resources, carries out precise management on keys of locks special for electric meter boxes, is safe and reliable, achieves intelligent management, achieves self-service borrowing and lending and completely eradicates hidden danger of electricity stealing and leakage. The intelligent key cabinet comprises a cabinet body, and further comprises an industrial control host computer, an identity recognition device, a control panel, a display screen, multiple indicator light sets, multiple RFID labels, multiple electric control locks, multiple displacement sensors, multiple RFID antenna panels and an RFID reader. The RFID antenna panels communicated with the RFID labels are arranged on drawers of all layers respectively, one indicator light set is arranged on each drawer of all layers, the displacement sensors and the electric control locks are also arranged on the drawers of all layers, the industrial control host computer reads the storage, taking and using information of keys in the drawers of all layers in real time through the RFID reader and all the RFID antenna panels, and the industrial control host computer senses the opening states of the drawers of all layers through the displacement sensors and controls the opening/closing of the drawers of all layers through the electric control locks.