## 7 Conclusions and Future Work
In summary, by leveraging the expertise of viticultural professionals, we have successfully integrated all the functional requisites for calculating grape quality and differentiated payment. The result is a user-friendly, potent, and adaptable application that effectively addresses the diverse requirements of wineries, facilitating experimentation, promoting eco-sustainability, and fostering continuous improvement in viticultural products. With respect to the implications of the tool for sustainability and market competitiveness, notice that preserving resources and the environment has become a key priority for wine producers, presenting both opportunities and challenges. This issue holds significant importance for the wine industry as it seeks to adapt and maintain a sustainable, integrated approach to grape and wine production [14]. Some of these challenges are mainly water management and saving, the use of organic fertilizers, and the reduction in phytosanitary products among others. Reducing water consumption is a method of achieving sustainability. DICAUVACOOP could penalize those farmers who consume more water. This penalty could be easily introduced in the configuration section. The same approach could be considered with the use of fertilizers. Excessive use of chemical fertilizers and phytosanitary products could be penalized. In fact, this is one of the main ideas behind our software since cooperative managers (involved in the development of the tool) wanted to reward ecological actions conducted by farmers. For example, the GIS part of DICAUVACOOP software can be used to delimit the ecological parcels and the payment obtained by them. Consequently, the idea behind the DICAUVACOOP tool is to benefit those farmers who obtained a high-quality wine by being eco-friendly since consumers and governments appreciate this kind of product. Obviously, to achieve the requirements of low environmental impact and high-quality wine, intensive research should be carried out in the agricultural sector. In [15], the authors prove that a deficit irrigation regime of 85% of crop evapotranspiration does not affect vegetative nor reproductive vine performance, and a high-quality wine is obtained. On the other hand, addressing environmental issues and transitioning from a quantity-based to a quality-based payment system can be achieved. A quantity-based payment system, in most cases, increases the water consumption of grapes to produce a high quantity of must. Moreover, the quality can be reduced since the quantity of grapes, one of the key factors in wine quality, decreases. Thus, by transitioning to a quality-based payment system, different objectives are achieved:  
* Reduction in water and fertilizer consumption, which benefits the environment. * Increase in quality, which benefits the prestige of Castilla-La Mancha wines. In fact, DICAUVACOOP could be easily adapted to other wineries according to environmental or quality policies. By paying in terms of quality, as has been previously described, the farmers do not lose money because they receive more money according to the quality and they save money on water and fertilizers. DICAUVACOOP provides benefits for those changes by rewarding best practices and penalizing bad ones with real data of the harvests or simulating the next campaign. In the pursuit of expanding the current software applications, several avenues for future work emerge, such as the implementation of metrics and user-friendly visual statistical comparisons between seasons and quality criteria, aiming to facilitate easier assessment and interpretation of the data and providing valuable insights into the variations across different seasons and quality benchmarks.