QuickOPC User's Guide and Reference
Examples - OPC XML-DA - Subscribe to a single item
# This example shows how subscribe to changes of a single item in an OPC XML-DA server and display the value of the item 
# with each change, using a callback method specified using lambda expression.

#requires -Version 5.1
using namespace OpcLabs.EasyOpc
using namespace OpcLabs.EasyOpc.DataAccess

# The path below assumes that the current directory is [ProductDir]/Examples-NET/PowerShell/Windows .
Add-Type -Path "../../../Components/Opclabs.QuickOpc/net472/OpcLabs.EasyOpcClassicCore.dll"
Add-Type -Path "../../../Components/Opclabs.QuickOpc/net472/OpcLabs.EasyOpcClassic.dll"
Add-Type -Path "../../../Components/Opclabs.QuickOpc/net472/OpcLabs.EasyOpcClassicComponents.dll"

# Instantiate the client object.
$client = New-Object EasyDAClient

$serverDescriptor = New-Object ServerDescriptor -Property @{
    UrlString = "http://opcxml.demo-this.com/XmlDaSampleServer/Service.asmx"
}

# Item changed event handler
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $client -EventName ItemChanged -Action { 
    if ($EventArgs.Succeeded) {
        Write-Host $EventArgs.Vtq
    }
    else {
        Write-Host "*** Failure: $($EventArgs.ErrorMessageBrief)"
    }
}

Write-Host "Subscribing item..."
[IEasyDAClientExtension]::SubscribeItem($client, $serverDescriptor, "Dynamic/Analog Types/Int", 1000, $null)

Write-Host "Processing item changes for 30 seconds..."
$stopwatch =  [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew() 
while ($stopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds -lt 30) {    
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
}

Write-Host "Unsubscribing items..."
$client.UnsubscribeAllItems()

Write-Host "Waiting for 2 seconds..."
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2

Write-Host "Finished."
QuickOPC supports OPC XML-DA also on Linux and macOS.
See Also

Conceptual

Examples - OPC Data Access