diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index a29bd7ab99..8b3b1dec6a 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2433,6 +2433,7 @@ menu "System tools"
 	source "package/tpm2-totp/Config.in"
 	source "package/unscd/Config.in"
 	source "package/util-linux/Config.in"
+	source "package/watchdog/Config.in"
 	source "package/xdg-dbus-proxy/Config.in"
 	source "package/xen/Config.in"
 	source "package/xvisor/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox.mk b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
index e049bce81d..7862beb790 100644
--- a/package/busybox/busybox.mk
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox.mk
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ BUSYBOX_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_USBUTILS),usbutils) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX),util-linux) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_VIM),vim) \
+	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_WATCHDOG),watchdog) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_WGET),wget) \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_WHOIS),whois)
 
diff --git a/package/watchdog/Config.in b/package/watchdog/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf485034d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/watchdog/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_WATCHDOG
+	bool "watchdog"
+	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
+	help
+	  Watchdog is a daemon that periodically pets a watchdog device
+	  if the configured system status checks pass. If they do not,
+	  the daemon may execute repair commands, shutdown the system or
+	  reboot it.
+
+	  https://sourceforge.net/projects/watchdog/
diff --git a/package/watchdog/watchdog.hash b/package/watchdog/watchdog.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7366c1b5e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/watchdog/watchdog.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally computed
+sha256  b8e7c070e1b72aee2663bdc13b5cc39f76c9232669cfbb1ac0adc7275a3b019d  watchdog-5.16.tar.gz
+sha256  af7f3f94e85080204b37f7c53717a2c94c6b54d7fa516ebd74e008cb4c0391bd  COPYING
diff --git a/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk b/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b814fdc672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/watchdog/watchdog.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# watchdog
+#
+################################################################################
+
+WATCHDOG_VERSION = 5.16
+WATCHDOG_SITE = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/watchdog
+WATCHDOG_AUTORECONF = YES
+WATCHDOG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
+WATCHDOG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
+# By default installs binaries in /usr/sbin/, but we want them in
+# /sbin/ so that they fall at the same place as Busybox counterparts
+WATCHDOG_CONF_OPTS = --sbindir=/sbin
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))