In simple words...
电压、电流还有温控湿控... these are basically analogue signals of which the not in the format that PC could understand, thus, you need DAQ (Data Acquisition) Card(s) that does the ADC etc. converting the input analogue signals to the appropriate format the representation that PC understood...
Basically, they are the interfaces between the PC (software) and the transducers (acquiring data from the actual world).