Software (often on firmware) designed to make physical products and devices "smarter" by doing things like sharing usage informa
tion, helping diagnose problems, indicating maintenance schedules, providing alerts, or enabling devices to take orders from other systems is referred to as ___________. Desktop software programs Enterprise Resource Planning systems Embedded systems Multi-threaded Application servers
Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that the type of software that is being described is known as an embedded system. This is actually a combination of both hardware and software that focuses on a specific function which is later implemented into a much larger system to allow it to become "smarter", by performing more complex tasks, which would otherwise not be possible.
The growth of an exponential function will develop much faster than all other functions included in the options meaning the execution time will take longer. This makes exponential functions the least efficient.
