diff --git a/pypeman/channels.py b/pypeman/channels.py
index 8a09313..1ee7bb2 100644
--- a/pypeman/channels.py
+++ b/pypeman/channels.py
@@ -930,3 +930,4 @@ async def watch_for_file(self):
 wrap.add_lazy('pypeman.contrib.http', 'HttpChannel', ['aiohttp'])
 wrap.add_lazy('pypeman.contrib.time', 'CronChannel', ['aiocron'])
 wrap.add_lazy('pypeman.contrib.ftp', 'FTPWatcherChannel', [])
+wrap.add_lazy('pypeman.contrib.sftp', 'SFTPWatcherChannel', [])
diff --git a/pypeman/contrib/sftp.py b/pypeman/contrib/sftp.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..31606af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pypeman/contrib/sftp.py
@@ -0,0 +1,365 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import asyncio
+import logging
+import os
+import re
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import asyncssh
+
+from pypeman import channels, nodes, message, persistence
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+logging.getLogger("asyncssh").setLevel(logging.WARNING)  # asyncssh's logs are really verbose
+
+SFTP_TIMEOUT = 10  # timeout in seconds
+
+
+class SFTPConnection():
+    """
+    FTP connection manager.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, host, port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None):
+        """
+        :param host: SFTP host.
+        :param port: SFTP port
+        :param credentials: A tuple with (login, password)
+        :param hostkey: Key to login with (optional if auth with login/pwd only)
+        :return:
+        """
+        self.conn_args = {
+            "host": host,
+            "port": port,
+            "connect_timeout": SFTP_TIMEOUT,
+            "login_timeout": SFTP_TIMEOUT,
+            "known_hosts": None,  # TODO: change that
+        }
+
+        if not (credentials or hostkey):
+            raise TypeError("must have credentials or hostkey param")
+        if credentials:
+            self.conn_args["username"] = credentials[0]
+            self.conn_args["password"] = credentials[1]
+        if hostkey:
+            self.conn_args["client_keys"] = [hostkey]
+
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        self.client = await asyncssh.connect(
+            **self.conn_args
+        )
+        self.sftp = await self.client.start_sftp_client()
+        return self.sftp
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, tb):
+        self.sftp.exit()
+        self.client.close()
+
+
+class SFTPHelper():
+    """
+    SFTP helper to abstract sftp access.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, host, port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None):
+        self.host = host
+        self.port = port
+        self.hostkey = hostkey
+        self.credentials = credentials
+
+    async def list_dir(self, path):
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            listdir = await sftp_conn.readdir(path)
+            # TODO: test sort
+            sortedlistdir = sorted(listdir, key=lambda sshfile: sshfile.attrs.mtime)
+            return sortedlistdir
+
+    async def download_file(self, filepath, encoding="utf-8"):
+        """
+        Download a file from sftp asynchronously.
+        :param filepath: file path to download.
+        :return: content of the file.
+        """
+        # Get file content from sftp
+        logger.debug("SFTP download file from fpath %s", filepath)
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            async with sftp_conn.open(filepath, asyncssh.FXF_READ, encoding=encoding) as fin:
+                content = await fin.read()
+        return content
+
+    async def upload_file(self, filepath, content, encoding="utf-8"):
+        """
+        Upload a file to sftp.
+        :param filepath: Path of file to create.
+        :param content: Content to upload.
+        """
+        # write file in sftp
+        logger.debug("SFTP upload file to fpath %s", filepath)
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            async with sftp_conn.open(filepath, asyncssh.FXF_WRITE, encoding=encoding) as fout:
+                content = await fout.write(content)
+        return content
+
+    async def rename(self, fromfilepath, tofilepath):
+        """
+        Rename a file from path to another path in ftp.
+        :param fromfilepath: original file to rename.
+        :param tofilepath: destination file.
+        """
+        logger.debug("SFTP rename file %s to %s", fromfilepath, tofilepath)
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            await sftp_conn.rename(fromfilepath, tofilepath)
+
+    async def delete(self, filepath):
+        """
+        Delete an SFTP file.
+        :param filepath: File to delete.
+        """
+        logger.debug("SFTP Delete file %s", filepath)
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            await sftp_conn.remove(filepath)
+
+    async def file_exists(self, filepath):
+        """
+        Return True if a file exists in the SFTP, False otherwise
+        :param filepath: File to check existence.
+        """
+        async with SFTPConnection(host=self.host, port=self.port,
+                                  credentials=self.credentials,
+                                  hostkey=self.hostkey) as sftp_conn:
+            if await sftp_conn.exists(filepath):
+                return True
+            else:
+                return False
+
+
+class SFTPWatcherChannel(channels.BaseChannel):
+    """
+    Channel that watch sftp for file creation.
+    """
+
+    PERSISTENCE_TABLENAME = "sftpwatcher"
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, host, port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None, basedir="",
+                 regex='.*', interval=6, delete_after=False, encoding="utf-8",
+                 real_extensions=None, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        self.basedir = basedir
+        self.interval = interval
+        self.delete_after = delete_after
+        self.re = re.compile(regex)
+        self.encoding = encoding  # If set to None, read as bytes
+
+        self.LAST_READ_MTIME_FIELDNAME = f"{self.name}_last_read_mtime"
+        self.real_extensions = real_extensions  # list of extensions for exemple: [".csv", ".CSV"]
+
+        self.sftphelper = SFTPHelper(
+            host=host, port=port, credentials=credentials, hostkey=hostkey)
+        self.backend = None
+        self.last_read_mtime = 0
+
+    async def get_last_read_mtime(self):
+        """
+        Get last read mtime in the persistence backend
+        !caution! the channel must be started
+        """
+        last_read_mtime = await self.backend.get(
+            self.PERSISTENCE_TABLENAME, self.LAST_READ_MTIME_FIELDNAME, default=0)
+        return last_read_mtime
+
+    async def set_last_read_mtime(self, mtime_value):
+        """
+        Set last read mtime in the persistence backend
+        !caution! the channel must be started
+        """
+        await self.backend.store(
+            self.PERSISTENCE_TABLENAME, self.LAST_READ_MTIME_FIELDNAME, mtime_value)
+        self.last_read_mtime = mtime_value
+        return mtime_value
+
+    async def start(self):
+        if not self.backend:
+            self.backend = await persistence.get_backend(loop=self.loop)
+        self.last_read_mtime = await self.get_last_read_mtime()
+        logger.debug("last_read_mtime at start is %s", str(self.last_read_mtime))
+        await super().start()
+        asyncio.create_task(self.watch_for_file())
+
+    async def download_file(self, filename):
+        """
+        Download a file from sftp asynchronously.
+
+        :param filepath: file path to download.
+
+        :return: Content of the downloaded file.
+        """
+        if not self.is_stopped():
+            logger.debug("file %s found in %s", filename, self.basedir)
+            return await self.sftphelper.download_file(
+                self.basedir + '/' + filename, encoding=self.encoding)
+
+    async def get_file_and_process(self, filename):
+        """
+        Download a file from sftp and launch channel processing on msg with result as payload.
+        Also add a `filepath` header with sftp relative path of downloaded file.
+
+        :param filename: file to download relative to `basedir`.
+
+        :return: processed result
+        """
+        logger.debug("start handling of %s", filename)
+        if self.real_extensions:
+            fpath = Path(self.basedir) / filename
+            for extension in self.real_extensions:
+                real_fpath = fpath.with_suffix(extension)
+                if await self.sftphelper.file_exists(str(real_fpath)):
+                    filename = real_fpath.name
+                    break
+            else:
+                # If no related files
+                logger.error(
+                    "No %r related file to %s",
+                    self.real_extensions, str(fpath))
+        payload = await self.download_file(filename)
+
+        msg = message.Message()
+        msg.payload = payload
+        msg.meta['filepath'] = self.basedir + '/' + filename
+
+        if not self.is_stopped():
+            await super().handle(msg)
+
+    async def tick(self):
+        """
+        One iteration of watching.
+        """
+        sftp_ls = await self.sftphelper.list_dir(self.basedir)
+        logger.critical(sftp_ls)
+        for filestat in sftp_ls:
+            logger.critical(filestat)
+            logger.critical(vars(filestat))
+            fname = filestat.filename
+            if self.re.match(fname):
+                file_mtime = filestat.attrs.mtime
+                if self.last_read_mtime < file_mtime:
+                    logger.critical(filestat)
+                    logger.critical(self.last_read_mtime)
+                    logger.critical(filestat.filename)
+                    try:
+                        # TODO: ask if a try/finally here is a good idea
+                        await self.get_file_and_process(fname)
+                    finally:
+                        await self.set_last_read_mtime(file_mtime)
+
+    async def watch_for_file(self):
+        """
+        Watch recursively for ftp new files.
+        If file match regex, it is downloaded then processed in a message.
+        """
+        while not self.is_stopped():
+            await asyncio.sleep(self.interval)
+            try:
+                await self.tick()
+            except Exception as exc:
+                logger.exception(exc)
+                raise exc
+
+
+class SFTPFileReader(nodes.BaseNode):
+    """
+    Node to read a file from FTP.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, host="", port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None, filepath=None,
+                 encoding="utf-8", **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.filepath = filepath
+        self.encoding = encoding  # If set to None, read as bytes
+        self.sftphelper = SFTPHelper(host, port, credentials, hostkey)
+
+    async def process(self, msg):
+
+        filepath = nodes.choose_first_not_none(
+            nodes.callable_or_value(self.filepath, msg),
+            msg.meta.get('filepath'))
+        content = await self.sftphelper.download_file(filepath, encoding=self.encoding)
+
+        msg.payload = content
+        msg.meta['filepath'] = filepath
+
+        return msg
+
+
+class SFTPFileDeleter(nodes.BaseNode):
+    """
+    Node to delete a file from SFTP.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, host="", port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None, filepath=None,
+                 extensions_to_rm=None, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.filepath = filepath
+        self.sftphelper = SFTPHelper(host, port, credentials, hostkey)
+        self.extensions_to_rm = extensions_to_rm
+
+    async def process(self, msg):
+        filepath = nodes.choose_first_not_none(
+            nodes.callable_or_value(self.filepath, msg),
+            msg.meta.get('filepath'))
+        base_fpath = os.path.splitext(msg.meta["filepath"])[0]
+        try:
+            await self.sftphelper.delete(filepath)
+        except Exception:
+            logger.exception("Trying to delete file %s but doesn't exists", filepath)
+        if self.extensions_to_rm:
+            for extension in self.extensions_to_rm:
+                if await self.sftphelper.file_exists(f"{base_fpath}{extension}"):
+                    await self.sftphelper.delete(f"{base_fpath}{extension}")
+                    logger.debug("Meta file %s deleted", f"{base_fpath}{extension}")
+        return msg
+
+
+class SFTPFileWriter(nodes.BaseNode):
+    """
+    Node to write content to SFTP. File is first written with `.part` concatenated
+    to its name then renamed to avoid partial upload.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, host, port=22, credentials=None, hostkey=None, filepath=None,
+                 create_valid_file=False, validation_extension=".ok", encoding="utf-8",
+                 **kwargs):
+
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+
+        self.filepath = filepath
+        self.create_valid_file = create_valid_file
+        self.validation_extension = validation_extension
+        self.sftphelper = SFTPHelper(host, port, credentials, hostkey)
+        self.encoding = encoding
+
+    async def process(self, msg):
+
+        filepath = nodes.choose_first_not_none(
+            nodes.callable_or_value(self.filepath, msg),
+            msg.meta.get('filepath'))
+        content = msg.payload
+        if isinstance(content, str):
+            content = content.encode(self.encoding)
+
+        await self.sftphelper.upload_file(filepath + '.part', content)
+        await self.sftphelper.rename(filepath + '.part', filepath)
+        if self.create_valid_file:
+            validation_path = Path(filepath).with_suffix(self.validation_extension)
+            await self.sftphelper.upload_file(str(validation_path), b"")
+
+        return msg
diff --git a/pypeman/tests/test_channel.py b/pypeman/tests/test_channel.py
index e1c6fa6..cb078db 100644
--- a/pypeman/tests/test_channel.py
+++ b/pypeman/tests/test_channel.py
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 from pypeman.tests.common import MllPChannelTestThread
 from pypeman.tests.common import TstException
 from pypeman.tests.common import TstNode
-
+from pypeman.tests.test_sftp import MockedSFTPHelper
+from pypeman.persistence import MemoryBackend
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ def raise_exc(msg):
     raise Exception()
 
 
+# async def mocked_get_backend(loop):
+#     return MemoryBackend(loop=loop)
+
+
 class ChannelsTests(TestCase):
     def clean_loop(self):
         # Useful to execute future callbacks  # TODO: remove ?
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ def clean_msg(self, msg):
     def start_channels(self):
         # Start channels
         for chan in channels.all_channels:
-            self.loop.run_until_complete(chan.start())
+            self.loop.create_task(chan.start())
 
     def setUp(self):
         # Create class event loop used for tests to avoid failing
@@ -1219,3 +1224,27 @@ def send_mllp(host, port, data_to_send):
             mllp_chan_thread.kill()
             mllp_chan_thread.join()
         assert n1.last_input().payload == hl7_strdata
+
+    def test_sftpwatcher_channel(self):
+        fake_sftp_config = dict(host="fake", port=22, credentials=("fake", "fake"))
+        ftest_dir = Path(__file__).parent / "data"
+        ok_fpath = ftest_dir / "testfile.ok"
+
+        with mock.patch('pypeman.contrib.sftp.SFTPHelper', new=MockedSFTPHelper):
+            chan = channels.SFTPWatcherChannel(
+                name="sftpchan", regex=".*", loop=self.loop,
+                basedir=str(ftest_dir), **fake_sftp_config)
+            n = nodes.Log(name="test_sftpwatch_chan")
+            chan.add(n)
+            chan.backend = MemoryBackend()
+            asyncio.run(chan.backend.start())
+            n._reset_test()
+            self.start_channels()
+            # raise Exception
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(chan.tick())
+            raise Exception
+            self.assertEqual(n.last_input(), None)
+            ok_fpath.touch()
+            self.loop.run_until_complete(chan.tick())
+            self.assertEqual(n.last_input().payload, "testfilecontent")
+            self.clean_loop()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index eebafa9..84fbd26 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Mandatory
+asyncssh
 click
 daemonlite
 python-dateutil
@@ -8,4 +9,3 @@ jsonrpcclient
 requests # For jsonrpcclient
 ipython
 sqlitedict>=2.1  # Python 3.10 DeprecationWarning: setDaemon() is deprecated
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4aa36c5..778348c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 
     test_suite="nose.collector",
     install_requires=[
+        "asyncssh",
         "click",
         "daemonlite",
         "python-dateutil",
@@ -58,10 +59,11 @@
         "requests"
     ],
     extras_require={
+        "sftp": ["asyncssh"],
         "hl7": ["hl7"],
         "xml": ["xmltodict"],
         "time": ["aiocron"],
-        "all": ["hl7", "xmltodict", "aiocron"]
+        "all": ["asyncssh", "hl7", "xmltodict", "aiocron"]
     },
     setup_requires=["pytest-runner"],
     tests_require=[