Funnily enough, that was my computer science capstone project back in 2010!
I don’t know if our project sponsor ever got the company off the ground, but the basic idea was an automated system to scare geese off of golf courses without also activating in the middle of someone’s backswing.
If someone can sell it for $100 they'd make some serious money. The birds are fouling my pool, and the plastic owl does nothing. Right now I'm thinking it should make a loud noise, or launch a tennis ball randomly. The best part is I can have it disarm if it sees a person.
My thought is just to rent it out for to rich folks with lawns for a few hundred bucks a week. My contraption will have thermal detection, AI target discrimination, and precision targeting with a laminar flow water stream. That’s the plan, anyways.