Here is a basic flow you can try - each inject represents one of the two sensors. Both end up conneting to a join however if the second sensor reading doesn't occur within 5 seconds, the first is dumped.
After the join you can use the topic to determine the order of the sensors and then use that for the direction the object is moving.
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