diff --git a/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/Connection.py b/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/Connection.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0294b49907eadc7647932788861f1655f9d62cc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/Connection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Author:
+#    Giuseppe Carboni, <giuseppe.carboni@inaf.it>
+
+import socket
+import time
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+import ComponentErrorsImpl
+
+
+class Connection(object):
+    """This class implements a contextmanager for a socket.
+    Usage example:
+
+    with Connection(('127.0.0.1', 10000)) as s:
+        s.sendall('COMMAND\n')
+        answer = s.recv(1024)
+    
+    :param: address, a tuple containing IP address and PORT for the socket
+    :param: timeout, connection timeout, in seconds
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, address, timeout=2):
+        self.address = address
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        self.s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+        connected = 1
+        t0 = time.time()
+        while time.time() - t0 < timeout:
+            connected = self.s.connect_ex(self.address)
+            if connected == 0:
+                break
+            time.sleep(0.01)
+        if connected:
+            reason = 'Could not reach the device!'
+            from IRAPy import logger
+            logger.logError(reason)
+            exc = ComponentErrorsImpl.SocketErrorExImpl()
+            exc.setData('Reason', reason)
+            raise exc
+        return self.s
+
+    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
+        self.s.close()
diff --git a/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/__init__.py b/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/__init__.py
index f5b3d9a6aa39b3433f7e69c83fa6beec4f9a4567..dfae5e20669b8890b5dfbcf8b81e1b3348093feb 100644
--- a/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/__init__.py
+++ b/Common/Libraries/IRALibrary/src/IRAPy/__init__.py
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ C{from IRAPy import logger}
 list of modules:
   - customlogging: custom logging functionalities to replace standard logging
   - bsqueue: BoundedSortedQueue class implements a priority queue structure
+  - Connection: Connection class implements a contextmanager for a socket
 
 """
 import customlogging
 import ACSLog
+import Connection
 
 #Some comments required here. The custom logger mechanism is not working in python. 
 #do the way to separate the system logs to the ones do be shown to the user is to use different