Each year IEEE Access hosts a video award for authors that submit a video with their article submission.

This year, the winner was the video "Smart Optical Sensors for Internet of Things: Integration of Temperature Monitoring and Customized Security Physical Unclonable Functions", authored by Lília Dias, João Ramalho, Tiago Silvério, Lianshe Fu, Rute Ferreira, and Paulo André, Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT).

"The Internet of Things (IoT) has a high societal impact, in which healthcare services stand out. Challenges include the development of authenticatable smart IoT devices with the ability to simultaneously track people and sense in real-time human body temperature aiming to infer a health condition in a contactless and remote way through user-friendly equipment such as a smartphone. Univocal smart labels based on quick response (QR) codes were designed and printed on medical substrates (protective masks and adhesive) using flexible organic/inorganic luminescent inks."

See the winning video here.